On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:02:52AM +0200, Thomas wrote: > > The problem starts when a FTP connection fails or is slow. Then my > subscript is not terminated and the master script hangs. This in turn > leads to purple alarms for all hosts. Use "ncftpls" from the ncftp toolkit. "ncftpls -t 10 ftp://ftp.foo.com/" will timeout after 10 seconds. Henrik