hi it is controlled by /etc/crontab, one possibility why it's not running may be the execute permissions on either the /etc/cron.daily directory or the specific scripts ...
Andrew ------------------------------------------------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -----Original Message----- From: Ron Farrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 11:00 PM To: Debian User Subject: crontab control? Hello; What controls when '/etc/cron.daily/*' gets run? I thought it was '/etc/crontab' but for some reason it doesn't run at the times I specified. TIA, Ron -- Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home: <http://www.farrer.net/~rbf/> ICQ: pulsar 26276320 Debian GNU/HURD on Alpha: <http://hurd-alpha.sourceforge.net/>