I have to admit I don't read every message which comes to this list - the volume is too high to make that practical. Hence, I don't post often for just this reason... I'm probably duping something someone else says.You can also just write your crontab in any editor you like, save it in a file, and do : prompt> crontab <yourfilename> This replaces your current crontab with the contents of your file.This is a good example of how this topic got lost in this thread. Both of these were already mentioned. :)