As Allen pointed out to me and as you all know:

chmod a+x ip-up

and don't forget the first chars in the file have to be:
#!/bin/sh

>Hi Allen,

Yep, asked him first, but was a bit too ~impulsive~.

>Could you give me a helping hand; i'm still stuck at ppp.
>
>>% chmod a+x script
>>% ./script
>>hello
>>%
>
>Well hi too...still a ppp-roblem.
>when i dail-in and start pppd
>i get:
>May  9 00:57:08 dns pppd[461]: can't execute /etc/ppp/ip-up: Exec format error
>or a:
>May  9 00:57:08 dns pppd[461]: can't execute /etc/ppp/ip-up: Permission denied
>
>while i use a user with root priv & file-priv-settings are:
>-rwSr-Sr--  1 root  wheel  130 May  9 01:58 ip-up
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  130 May  9 01:58 ip-up
>-rwsr-sr-x  1 root  wheel  130 May  9 01:58 ip-up
>
>noud:yep:0:0::0:0:noud de brouwer:/usr/noud:/bin/csh
>or automatic:
>ppp:yep:0:0::0:0:PPP client login:/tmp:/usr/sbin/pppd
>



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