Greetings; I have need to add a "monthly event" to my root crontab. I know that the first two place holders (the '*'s) in the timeline are hours and minutes, but the manpages contain no hints as to what the next three '*'s represent. I would think that after 11 years, that lack of info and the resultant questions would have managed to get the manpages rewritten to include that info. Anyway, can anyone enlighten me on this please? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.