The hanging manpath call is caused from the script /usr/lib/secchk/security-daily.sh Inside this script there is a line /bin/csh -f -s << end-of-csh > /dev/null 2>&1 While executing this, /etc/csh.cshrc is called. In this file you find the line setenv MANPATH "(unsetenv $MANPATH;`manpath -q`)" That's the one, at least for my system. But likely it can be caused from any skript which starts a csh under certain The question is just *what* circumstances, because calling the security-daily script from the command line works. But called from any crontab, it hangs. Best, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@informatik.uni-kiel.de Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@web.de CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/ *** Windows 2000 - Die drei grossen G - Gesehen. Gelacht! Gelöscht :) ***