hi, fyi: To gain more knowlege about perl, i've written ck4up in perl. Since i was annoyed about the fact, that ck4up was not able to send emails to the port maintainers if something changed, i've added it to ck4upp. So it is possible to setup a conjob on one server which then notifies all maintainers, if needed. There are a view perl ports needed: p5-config-general, p5-lwp and p5-mailtools. All of them are in some repositiries at crux.nu, but if you want to have a unified source, you can use mine [1][2]. "/path/to/ck4upp --help" gives you a short summary of it's options. If you want a longer explanation, you can read the pod of this script (perldoc /path/to/ck4upp should work) ck4upp needs a config file (~/.ck4upp by default) where the packages to check are specified. In short the format is as follows: <portname> checkurl http://ckeck/me mailto notify@me.now </portname> The mailto option is voluntary. It is possible, that you have to set the PERL_MAILERS environment variable for sendmail. If you are missing some features, please tell me. bye richi [1] http://www.deri.at/~richardp/ports/ [2] http://www.deri.at/~richardp/ports/namenlos.httpup -- quoting guide: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html