Chris Frederick writes: > Anyone here know how to set up cron or at to email a reminder to a > certain user or email address? Like every day at 4:30pm and every > Friday at 4:00pm? And witch one is better, cron or at for this? Usually, at is used to schedule a job once and cron is used for ongoing jobs. Looking at their respective man pages would help. `man 5 crontab` crontab -e 30 16 * * * echo "hello" | mail -s "4:30pm" joe at example.com 0 16 * * 5 echo "hi there" | mail -s "4:00pm friday" joe at example.com -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list