I received a question from a fellow free-os user (he's a bsd'er technically). Anyhow, he is trying to do something that I couldn't figure out how to handle. Granted, this isn't how I would try to perform the task at hand, but since it's not my call to make I just need to find a resolution. Is there a simple way to automatically print out each entry made to a log file to a simple line printer? Basically something that would work like "tail -f logfile > lpr" (which doesn't work BTW) sans page feeds on the printer. Granted, one could script something to read the last line of the logfile, store it in a variable, and then reread the file every minute or so printing out any changed lines and updating the variable. However, I figure someone somewhere must have had to do this already. Maybe? thanks! -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions