Hi, The NAME environment variable is very important to my script, but in one Debian derivative distro (<cough>, <cough>, Ubuntu), I found such variable does not exist: $ env | grep ^NAME || echo no found no found This is the first time that I found the NAME variable missing from the environment. How common is this? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/