There was a thread http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/1103.html regarding cron daily in 9.3. The command find /var/spool/cron/lastrun -name cron.daily -printf "%c\n" was given to find the timestamp used by cron to run cron daily. In my trying to restore storeBackup to a functioning backup program, I was revisiting these instructions. I put the rm and touch commands in a crontab, and left my machine on all night (I normally power off my home machine at night) to set it to run at 2:00am. It set the time correctly, according to the above command, but I noticed after it was off last night, and ran the backup soon after starting this am, this timestamp was set to this mornings time, negating the rm and touch commands altogether. Is this the way it is supposed to work? It seems it will just keep changing when it runs depending on what time I turn on my computer, or if I turned on one day at noon, it will run at noon the next day if I turned on a 6am. Am I missing something, or is this the way it is supposed to work? I did make the changes to the /usr/lib/cron/run-crons. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871