Hi, I put some scripts in vscan's crontab : crontab -u vscan -l gives : # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.15403 installed on Thu Jul 8 13:06:39 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) @hourly /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/process-quarantine.pl @hourly /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/stats-snapshot.pl @daily /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/expire-quarantine-cache.pl @weekly /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/send-quarantine-reminders.pl But it seems that the hourly scripts don't run : grep vscan /var/log/messages gives : Jul 7 00:00:00 lace3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[27250]: (vscan) CMD ( /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/expire-quarantine-cache.pl) Jul 7 00:00:00 lace3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[27248]: (vscan) CMD ( /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/send-quarantine-reminders.pl) Jul 8 00:00:00 lace3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[6089]: (vscan) CMD ( /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/send-quarantine-reminders.pl) Jul 8 00:00:00 lace3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[6091]: (vscan) CMD ( /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/expire-quarantine-cache.pl) Jul 9 00:00:00 lace3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[25043]: (vscan) CMD ( /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/expire-quarantine-cache.pl) Jul 9 00:00:00 lace3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[25041]: (vscan) CMD ( /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/send-quarantine-reminders.pl) Permissions of the files are : -rwxr-x--- 1 vscan vscan 15056 Feb 15 03:00 expire-quarantine-cache.pl -rwxr-x--- 1 vscan vscan 3560 Feb 15 13:24 generate-key.pl -rwxr-x--- 1 vscan vscan 14658 Jul 6 09:34 load-sa-rules.pl -rwxr-x--- 1 vscan vscan 17027 Jul 7 16:54 process-quarantine.pl -rwxr-x--- 1 vscan vscan 17456 Mar 19 23:19 send-quarantine-reminders.pl -rwxr-x--- 1 vscan vscan 13053 Feb 1 21:38 stats-snapshot.pl What am I missing ? All help welcome ! B.T.W. the weekly script seems to be running daily, but since I was fiddling with the crontab, I'm uncertain if this is caused by me or something else. TIA -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.