I'd previously written to hurricane-list about this subject. expect wasn't working under vixie-cron because cron was ignoring SIGCHLD. I restored SIGDFL just before the exec() in cron, and it works fine. Now I have trouble when I try to spawn a decrypting unzip: spawn unzip DAILY.BC20.ZIP failed to get controlling terminal using TIOCSCTTYparent sync byte write: broken pipe Any clues? Thanks. -Chip -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.