Thanks for replying, not quite. I was once shown a way to run a script that was doing a rsh to another box, and to see what action the script was doing I run the script at the command line and Im sure I put something like -X after the script name, then while the scipt executes below the command line you could see the scipt action, like it doing its rsh to the box and so forth, so forth. It was a sinple way to see where my scipt is error'ing.