Ignore previous odd post. To get you started, there is autoexpect. Check the man page. Essentially, you do your thing once and autoexpect saves what is needed to automate it. The script usually needs editing to remove things that are too specifc. But it does the grunt work. expect does much more than what these simplistic automated login scripts do. It is worht checking out. And, it is cross-platform. I use expect all the time to do an ssh to a system, and then another ssh to a system from there. Works every time. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org