note Albannach You're making a piece of dumb text a handler. You need to reference the subroutine - try <code>$SIG{'INT'} = \&interrupt;</code> <p> See also [doc://perlvar#%SIG] <p> Ok, my bad, it seems you should be able to do what you tried (I've just never done it that way). Perhaps someone else can shed light on this. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <p>--<br> I'd like to be able to assign to an luser </div></div> 937845 937845