[03] DO YOU HAVE A HIT COUNTER I CAN USE? Yes, here is one that smj wrote in KORN shell which does basic locking. Follow these steps (after you've run mkhomepg): $ cat > $HOME/html/counter.cgi Now copy and past the following into your terminal: #!/bin/ksh # smj's no nonsense house. loop=0 # set the while counter. while [ -f .lck ] # while the lock file exists, do sleep 1 # sleep 1. loop=$((${loop} + 1)) # then increment the counter. if [ "$loop" -gt "10" ] # if it increments beyond 10, then rm -f .lck # clear the lock file. fi done touch -f .lck # create a new lock file. count=`cat .cnt` # get the current count. if [ "$count" = "" ] # if its empty, then count=1 # start the counter over. else count=$((${count} + 1)) # otherwise just increment fi echo $count > .cnt # write out the new count. rm .lck # clear the lock echo "Content-type: text/html" # make some html noise. echo echo "[<font size=-2 color=ffcc00>$count</font>]" ^D to close the 'cat' and run 'mkhomepg -p' to set proper permissions.