I got rdate to work; however, now I am having trouble with the crontab -e command and option. It tells me that I am doing something invalid and that the correct usage is...and then it brings up this list and e is definitely on there as edit. So I don't know what I am doing wrong. I tried reading the man page, and that was about as helpful as nothing. How do I also give the crontab root access, because if I am only logged in as Sina, I still want the job to be run every five minutes or whenever my interval is. Thanks, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.