Hi, Has anyone got this working from inside perl script successfully via cron ? It works fine if I run it by hand, but doesn't do anything via cron. strace shows connection reset by peer, but, tailing the server shows no connections. It is a key system and yes, I can happily ssh to the other pc without password or any prompting. Yes, they are fully pathed. I prefer use system(), it didn't work either, but to get it to work I am using backticks with a simple ls, so I can see when it works getting the darn thing connecting properly, then i'll re-insert my "real code" of what to do when it connects I'm trying to remove the need to have a NFS mount all time, as if it goes away, ubuntus task bar locks (thankfully I have a terminal icon so I can "reboot") I know it is going to be something simple, but i'm new to sshfs, and it just loses the plot when run as a (root) cron job #!/usr/bin/perl use Sys::Syslog; `/usr/bin/sshfs root\@lozza:/ /mnt/lozza`; $result = `ls /mnt/lozza`; syslog('info',"$result"); `/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/lozza`; Nick