Russ, Here's how I got notifyme to take it's output of stderr to a pipe. ( notifyme -vl - -f NNEXRAD 2>&1 1>&- | rtMeta.pl ) & =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================