>> That is just to obscure. You dont run cron jobs on a client off >> removable media. You just dont do that. > > Actually I do for my backups :) > AOL. With todays sizes and prizes of removable storage, it really makes much more sense to backup to a 300GB fast, easy to install and cheap FireWire-disk, than to a slow and expensive tapedrive. =;-) Most of the time this is probably done as root, but I guess there still might be situations where one wants to run such a job as another user. Rgds. Ola Thoresen