The attached perl script, like my first sh script, totals the seconds of usage on a single tape drive. This one also create a file for each tape of usage time for people who want to retire tape after some length of time. Currently checking the usage for any give tape is manual. If anyone wants to send me an amdump.1 file for a changer setup I will look at expanding the script. Comments always welcome. Jim. -- James E. Housley PGP: 1024/03983B4D PR Communications, Inc. 2C 3F 3A 0D A8 D8 C3 13 www.servtech.com/public/pr-comm 7C F0 B5 BF 27 8B 92 FE