re: NEWBIE: cron

Try man 5 crontab fields are: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week user command The line you used appends the date in /home/dating everyday at 00:01 If you want it to run every minute, you can try */1 * * * * root date >> /home/dating Hi, I am new to cron tasks and I can not find

Re. : New to Debian -- simple questions

See the /etc/motd textfile and change it to whatever you want (or delete it). You may also check your rc files. On my system (debian woody distro), there is a /etc/rc.S/S55bootmisc.sh that updates the motd at bootup. Minh Quang. Pour :"Debian User" cc : Objet : New to Debian -- simple