We encountered a rather bizarre situation where we were executing a shell command from cfexecute and were getting back only a portion of the output produced, followed by a timeout - regardless of how long we set the timeout value. Only when we had the shell write to a file, and then had coldfusion read that file, were we able to get all the output. This seems rather unusual - I suspect that coldfusion was waiting for some event before reading all of the output. Is there some trick to getting coldfusion to perform the appropriate buffer flush/reads? -- Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. Larry W. Virden <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/> Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -><- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists