Hi Donald,
* Donald Henson
Others have mentioned crontab -e. I didn't know about this until they responded to your post.
Yes. It appears that once you understand it, entering a cron job is trivial but there's also a pretty large learning curve. Those who already know how to do it forget that newbies seem to have a lot of trouble understanding cron jobs. Anyway, thanks for your response. I'll put it in the queue with all the other responses and see if I can get the light to come on.
Just had a thought, way after all the posts were posted, but are you okay with the format of a crontab i.e what each of the 5 "fields' are prior to the 'action'? Not trying to teach you to "suck eggs', but I can summarise it if needed. Hope you have it sorted anyway. -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org