diff --git a/site_ansto/instrument/deploySICS.sh b/site_ansto/instrument/deploySICS.sh
index a18401f5..f4bc5e0b 100755
--- a/site_ansto/instrument/deploySICS.sh
+++ b/site_ansto/instrument/deploySICS.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# $Revision: 1.16 $
-# $Date: 2006-11-22 06:36:33 $
+# $Revision: 1.17 $
+# $Date: 2006-12-11 00:06:18 $
 # Author: Ferdi Franceschini (ffr@ansto.gov.au)
 # Last revision by $Author: dcl $
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Usage:
   ./deploySICS.sh [-n] INSTRUMENT [TARGET_HOST [TARGET_DIR]]
 where
   -n if present inhibits the actual deployment (for testing the script)
-  INSTRUMENT can be hrpd, echidna, hipd, wombat, ...
+  INSTRUMENT can be hrpd, echidna, hipd, wombat, ... (not "./xxx")
     or test/INSTRUMENT or INSTRUMENT/test for test deployment
   TARGET_HOST can be a remote host or 'localhost'
     defaults to ics1-<instrument>.nbi... or ics1-test.nbi... for test
@@ -146,8 +146,10 @@ exit 1
 fi
 
 # Generate instrument description xml
-./hipadaba/gen_hpdbxml.tcl $INSTRUMENT
+chmod +x ./hipadaba/gen_hipadaba_config.tcl
+chmod +x ./hipadaba/gen_hpdbxml.tcl
 ./hipadaba/gen_hipadaba_config.tcl $INSTSRC
+./hipadaba/gen_hpdbxml.tcl $INSTRUMENT
 # Get list of files to copy 
 COMMON=$(for f in $(cat $SRCDIR/MANIFEST.TXT); do echo -n "$SRCDIR/$f "; done)
 INSTSPEC=$(for f in $(cat $INSTSRC/MANIFEST.TXT); do echo -n "$INSTSRC/$f "; done)