sorry, the reason for this was a wrongly configured JAVA_HOME, however, my script didn't bother to log the appropriate message. cheers greg -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371