On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:08:40AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I type "crontab -e" and add a line that have 6 fields, > but it does not work. > Is the last line of your crontab file a blank line, no characters on it? Can't remember why crontab requires this, but it does (or it used to). See man 5 crontab if this turns out to be the problem.