The problem with my perl script, turned out to be Perl itself which apparently -- unknownst to me before this -- has built in security checks against suid scripts. So, after checking the 'perlsec' man page, just write a quick'n'dirty C wrapper much like what's listed in that man page. Everything's fine now! :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/