note cdarke How do you know it does not work? Do you get an error back from system?<code>my $stat=system('mumble mumble');</code>Returned errors are your friends ;-)<br><br>You could also try doing a <b>-e</b> <i>filename</i> on the script, and on perl, since we don't seem to know which one is causing the problem. 710774 710774