On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen (alsonm@linuxfreak.com) wrote: >try 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar >/home/sunkcost/test.txt > >you forgot a *, so cron tried to interpet sunkcost as day of week, which >doesn't really work Oops. This was a mistake on my part in writing the e-mail. I've got 4 *s in the actual file.