See the FAQ entry titled "Why do I keep getting messages like “root: not found” after editing my crontab file?" http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/