In article <2616F01C.3192 at orion.oac.uci.edu> meggers at mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) writes: |Thank you everyone for the information. The problem turns out to |be with `echo $USER`. It appears that $USER is not set, although |the man page claims that it is. `echo $LOGNAME` works properly. | |thanks again - /mde/ $LOGNAME works properly too... Leo.