How would I go about writing a little program that would finger somebody every, say, 5 or 10 minutes (want to take as few precious CPU cycles as possible!), and alert me if they are logged in (and then not alert me while they remain logged in)? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Bob -- Robert E. Williams, Jr. | Always remember that you are unique... Macintosh Developer | Just like everyone else. Enterprise Software | ___________________________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~williar2