> > The problem is that user 'jdoe' is not who runs the pager process. My bet > is that it's user 'mail' that is trying to send the page, who does not > have the proper permissions.
Well, the pager process is spawned by "filter", which was spawned from the user's .forward. So it would be a "bad thing"(tm) for it to run as any user *except* the user. Besides, I even checked. I did: (whoami; $HOME/pagemail.pl 5551212 "test message") > $HOME/out and "out" then contains: jdoe Running pager process... ERROR: No permission to open /dev/ttyS1!!! dying.... - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]