I believe that it should be in the following format... #minute hour mday month wday who command For example to run mrtg every 5 minutes you would use the following line */5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/mrtg /home/user1/mrtg.cfg Gilbert > Okay yet another stupid newbie question. I've gotten too used > to/etc/cron.hourly it seems. Now I'm on a FreeBSD box and I can't seem > to get a cron job to run hourly. > > I tried crontab -e > > then > > 0 * * * * ./filename > > > only that doesn't seem to be working what am I doing wrong? > > > Carl Parrish.