Luis> Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so Luis> that I only run popclient when it is? Here's my crontab entry. Every 5 minutes, fping tests whether we can connect to the pop hosts. In case we are, popclient is called with the account password on rosebud being stored in ~/.rosebud. */5 * * * * fping -q rosebud && popclient -s -3 -P ~/.rosebud rosebud -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd