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...backup is done? First of all, that's sort of ugly. What I have in mind is something a lot simpler. How about something *ROUGHLY* analagous to this: # cat /proc/$PID/prev (4643, 13.2% of 1027477) # cat /proc/$PID/curr usr/local/rep/3ECBF9879808410/dictdb_3ECBFB89878410OX.db # cat /proc/$PID/curr_rate 80703888 8% 65.37kB/s 3:51:30 Or even better is just to update the environment, so a simple "cat /proc/$PID/environ" could let you parse out $PREV, $CURR and $CURR_RATE from the environment string. I'm not much of a C coder, otherwise I'd offer up a patch. Wayne *DID* as...