Thanks for informing me that CGI and CLI may use a different php.ini and that they may be compiled differently. The admin finally admitted that he ran a yum update which overwrote the manually compiled CLI version. The reason I missed it was that the build date of the latest CLI version was earlier than when the scripts broke. _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct