Hi, I have a perl-script to modify the system-time of my laptop. While I was connected to my university's broadband, I could run this via cron once per day. Now I have only dial-up at my home, so really can't determine whether I will be online, when this script runs. I would pretty much modify the script e.g. just to avoid errors mailed to me, that first it should check that we are online (dialed-in) or not and do setting the time only in the first case. My first idea was to ping e.g. www.google.com or a similar always-on machine, but I didn't manage to interpret it. Does anyone have a few-line home-baked idea for such a task and would share it with me? Thank you in advance, Pelibali -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com