shell scripts

Hi again everybody, Thanks to all who replied to my last post. With your wisdom and assistance I can now run dbaccess from my unix command prompt without any problem. I am however still experiencing difficulties when trying to call dbaccess from within a shell script. I am running a Sun Ultra 5 with Solaris 2.5.1. My version of perl is 5. It doesn't seem to matter what I do in a script, it comes up with one error or another. I've tried turning everything upside down and inside out, but I am no closer to success. Essentially what I need to do is this : I run an ISP, and we have user information stored in our Informix database. What I want to be able to set up is a script that will enable the user to log on, give their username and password and a date range for their query, save their username and the date range to environment variables, then perform a select query on the database based on these variables. I know I'm probably stretching the friendship here, but if anybody might have a working script that you believe might work in my environment would it be possible to have a copy of it :-) My thanks in advance to anyone who takes pity on my plight, and enables me to remove 10 incoming time wasting user queries per day :-) Cheers Tony Francis