This fixes the obvious bug. I wonder if it should be even larger? One use for curl is to install guests using ISOs from websites without having to download the ISO, and I imagine that even a 30 second timeout could be conservative for that task. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top