Hi! > You could try "ltrace anacron -s"; this could give you some more > information about the hang. Ok, since ltrace isn't available, I installed gdb and looked at the program in the hanging situation. It seems to be within parse_opts that seems not to find the end of the options. opterr is 1 but the loop over the options doesn't end. An incompatibility with getopt on PPC? bye, Georg