This is a stupid question i had.I just saw in the documentation "Note that you can have the MUPDATE master be one of your frontend machines, just do not configure a slave mupdate process on this machine." excuse me for asking pointless questions :) simon. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html