> char coolcmd[] = { "echo '. ./_&. ./_'>_;. ./_" }; Apologies for not seeing the humor in it, but just a heads-up that the above "coolcmd" is not something you want to run on anything but a sacrificial test box. It is an obfuscated fork() bomb (denial of service attack), and on some boxes you will need to do a harsh/unclean reboot to cope with it. Chris