Kevin Brown wrote: > running ulimit from the shell gives a response of unlimited. The log files are > around 100 - 200MB in size for each day that I'm trying to process (one day's Any chance /tmp is running out of space? (its a stretch, but its happened to me with the sort command, and I am going to guess that sort may be called from the perl script..) -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. |