Jim Streit writes: > Next question... how do I make sure that my cron job doesn't try to > send a message to root when it runs? Any output from cron is mailed to the owner of the cron job. What you want to do is make sure there is no output. Do this by redirecting the output: command > /dev/null The above redirects stdout (file descriptor 1) to /dev/null. Many commands write error messages to stderr (fd 2). If you also want to discard error messages, do this: command > /dev/null 2>&1 The above makes stderr a copy of stdout. You can also specifically redirect each descriptor: command > /dev/null 2> /dev/null -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list