diff --git a/benchmarks/rich/scripts/simulate.py b/benchmarks/rich/scripts/simulate.py
index e7ce4e4b11bb3f3128dc5c204be573cf136988b6..2e4903007788d9dbdd4b915ed0d8cbb063b1d5be 100755
--- a/benchmarks/rich/scripts/simulate.py
+++ b/benchmarks/rich/scripts/simulate.py
@@ -178,8 +178,10 @@ m.write(f'/gps/position 0 0 0 cm\n')
 
 ### obtain list of detector attributes and values
 paramList=f'params_{outputName}'
+os.system(f'which npdet_info'); print(sep) #########
+os.system(f'npdet_info'); print(sep) #########
 os.system(f'npdet_info search {XRICH} --value {compactFileFull} > {paramList}.py')
-print("** compact file params **"); os.system(f'cat {paramList}.py'); print(sep)
+print("** compact file params **"); os.system(f'cat {paramList}.py'); print(sep) #########
 sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
 params = importlib.import_module(paramList)