> I'd like to learn how to configure/remove cron tasks (every 15 minutes > all directories in /home get a chmod 700, I'd like to stop that), This is due to "msec". You can edit /var/lib/msec/security.conf if you want to change the behavior of msec; change CHECK_PERMS=yes to no. Or you can just stop msec from running by removing it from the cron.* dirs if you want to. If you actually want to edit the crontjobs.. you need to look at /etc/crontab and root's crontab. man crontab Nick -- Nick Davis Associate Systems Administrator ndavis at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services