(I would add this to the policy) IMHO every time crontab (I am talking about /etc/cron.* scripts) save's a logfile via savelog it should test is '-fs' instead of '-f'. thks borik -------------------------------------------------------------- Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il Network Administrator borik@cs.huji.ac.il Hebrew University borik@debian.org Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 6411880