Arcady Genkin: > It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never gets > done.
That's right. > Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in case that it > never got to run because it was off? To get that, you can: a) check out the anacron package, or b) make a boot-up script that checks whether the job has been done in the last ~24 hours, and does it if it hasn't been (and it's not almost 11pm anyway) Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.