I did think of that. Tried that idea, and even a couple of variations, but it didn't work. Have no idea why. Actually, I solved my problem by junking the Command Line and Login Hooks entirely and went a more traditional GUI way. I hinted at that in my last post yesterday, and since then found the solution. Did my last test this morning. I defined the item I wanted in the GUI under the User Account in System Preferences, instead of using a Login Hook shell script. I digged until I saw that Login Hooks are placed in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist , where they are executed as soon as one logs in, before the GUI. System Preferences makes it's entries in ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist, where items are executed after you have logged in in the traditional Mac sense, i.e. after you¹ve got the Finder/Desktop. That¹s what I need for my case. Now if you change the version of EITHER of these files that¹s in /Library/Preferences/ instead of ~/Library/Preferences/ , you get something auto-running for ANY User who logs into the Mac, not just that specific account. Success! Thanks to everyone who answered along the way. I¹ve learned a lot of useful things for the future, once again. - opa On 1/11/05 1:43 AM, "Craig" <craig at craigwdesigns.com> wrote: > Do you maybe need to just add an "&" after this script's name, in > wherever you are calling it from? > > - Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-unix/attachments/20050111/41654a63/attachment.html