lftp hangs running from cron

[Yard, John]

I see behavior where the lftp session always hangs running as a script from cron, and the script works when run from the command line.   The  ( very simplified ) code :   #!/bin/ksh echo "open ftps://xxxxx.xxxx.com -u xxxxx,xxxxxxx" > /usr/local/bin/lockusr.input echo "debug -o /home/lockusr/USLOCK.tmp.log2" >> /usr/local/bin/lockusr.input echo "dir" >> /usr/local/bin/lockusr.input     /usr/local/bin/lftp -f /usr/local/bin/lockusr.input   exit 0   When I run this from the command line I see progress messages on my terminal. Can these be eliminated ? I wonder id the handling or non-handeling of these messages is causing the system to hang.   Thx for any suggestions,   John Yard UCLA   PS – when I redirect output of the lftp execution itself to a file, it hangs, even run from the command line.