Harold G. Stevenson: ... > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device or resource busy', attempt 34, > sleeping 20 at 10:34:02 What else is using /dev/lp1? fuser -v /dev/lp1 (That's if you have the psmisc package.) Jiri -- <jiri@baum.com.au> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.