Mikiel Mifsud writes: >with debian .. if i wish to execute a program, lets say daily or weekly >... do i use cron? Yes. See `man 5 crontab', `man 1 crontab' and possibly `man 8 cron' for details. -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ richard@uk.geeks.org Eat a live toad before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day.