Many Thanks, Learning is a wonderful thing. I had no idea I didn't need cat. I guess I'd only use it to append to a file as in cat >>, no? I considered the quotes but regrettfully never tried them. I definitely will not need so much sleep now. I use logwatch, but at the default level. I never attempted to customize it. It reports a number of things including lame servers, although I wish it would put a time-stamp on the lame server entries. Most of these are generated through Spamassassin MX lookups. My ultimate goal is to create some colorful charts and track some trends similar to this: http://farmer6re9.isa-geek.org/log.html ~141k w/image Thanks Again, farmer6re9 -- Eating Crow is better with MyCrowSauce -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml