Dear All: kill -s SIGHUP parentprocessid only works once for lonc. (Running it a second time on the newly generated parentprocess has no effect.) This is, I assume, old news to all involved... etc. Regards, Scott -- Scott Harrison -- Graduate Student Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Mich. State. Univ., East Lansing, MI harris41@msu.edu, 517-353-0998