Hello, is there anything like run-parts that would run all the scripts at the same time, and then wait for all of them to finish? I wouldn't mind having most of my ip-up.d run together - I suspect there's a lot of time spent idle waiting for protocol negotiation to go through... Jiri -- <jiri@baum.com.au> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.