IO.popen() works well. Thanks a lot!! Jarod Zhu > For more advances applications you may want to take a look at Daemons:http://daemons.rubyforge.org/ > > -- > Avdi > > Home:http://avdi.org > Developer Blog:http://avdi.org/devblog/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/avdi > Journal:http://avdi.livejournal.com