Frock writes: > Why is my cron starting those /USR/SBIN/CRON like 100 times... Cron goes through the crontabs every minute and runs every command that is scheduled to run this minute. I suspect that you have a cron job somewhere that is scheduled to run every minute, and hangs the child that cron forks to run it. A minute later, the same thing. And again... runq maybe? -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI