Hi Joost, You may be able to work around the sequential nature of cron jobs by the simple ruse of making a small script which "backgrounds" each job that you want to run contemporaneously. Something like: #!/bin/sh nohup jobToRun & This script will return immediately while the job runs, allowing cron to start up the other jobs. Of course, cron has to call the script, not <jobToRun>. HTH-- -Frank