On Sun, 19 May 2002 05:54:49 -0400, Emil said: > Isn't --no-tty supposed to mean _NO_ tty whatsoever ? No, it does only make sure never to write to the tty directly (i.e. it does not open /dev/tty). The tty may be required to ask for a passphrase even when stderr has been redirected. Avoiding all informational output is done by redirecting stderr to /dev/zero Werner