wget-1.7-2 contains a patch that checks for the daemon(3) function and uses it if available to detach wget from the terminal when it's running in (you guessed it) daemon mode. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.7-2.1.diff.gz or # mkdir wget # cd wget # apt-get source wget Also note that giFT is currently broken. :^( http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=114410 http://www.giftproject.org/press_9_29_01.html Dave