user cron question

["G. Kapetanios" <gk205@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

Hi,

I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup
script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same
username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. 
I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained 
only my username. I edited my crontab file using the command crontab -e
and I restarted the cron daemon just in case , but the thing didn't work.

I am wondering what I might hve done wrong 

                        Any help will be appreciated 

                           Thanks 
                               George 





-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
George Kapetanios
Churchill College
Cambridge, CB3 0DS    E-Mail: GK205@cus.cam.ac.uk
U.K.                  WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------



--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .