hi i have a script that connects to the internet, sends and receives email, then disconnects. i want it to run 3 times a day - at 8:30, 12:00 and 16:30 on all days except sunday. it looks like CRON is a sort of scheduling program, but from what the man pages say, it only runs when a user is logged on and that user has the event set up in their area. as it will be running on a server, no users will be directly logged on to the machine, so how can i get round this. what is the exact procedure or where can i find a step-by-step guide - is there a howto on the subject? many thanks, Andrew Smith <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>hi</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>i have a script that connects to the internet, sends and receives email, then disconnects. i want it to run 3 times a day - at 8:30, 12:00 and 16:30 on all days except sunday. it looks like CRON is a sort of scheduling program, but from what the man pages say, it only runs when a user is logged on and that user has the event set up in their area. as it will be running on a server, no users will be directly logged on to the machine, so how can i get round this. what is the exact procedure or where can i find a step-by-step guide - is there a howto on the subject?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>many thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Andrew Smith</FONT></DIV></BODY>