we use the rsh stuff quite a lot here in our local network. it is sectioned off from the outside and a cracker could probably do us a lot of damage if they got in through our fire wall or were a disgruntled employee or some such but as for right now we are dependent on them for lots of scripts and such. to the question. We have a mix of SCO, HP-UX, and Linux here, mostly SCO of which we use rcmd for remote execution of commands. This does not exist in Linux and I was wondering what the equivalent would be. basically just execute a command remotely and have the output displayed local. any help would be great. Thanks Bill Warner