found this while looking through the guide: quot guide>>Safe Code Updates on a Live Production Server -- snip -- think I'm ready I do: % cd /home/httpd/perl % mv rel old; mv beta rel; stop; sleep 3; restart; err <<quote guide lately I have been getting in the habit of doing the following: cd /home/httpd/perl && mv rel old && mv beta rel && sleep 3 && restart this way if something blows up, then rest of the commands do not get executed. cliff rayman genwax.com