On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:10:33PM -0500, MallarJ@aol.com wrote: > I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not > currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a > laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to get > the cron stuff to run manually? Or possibly at bootuptime? install anacron (and RTFM :-) -- your man pann