Thank you for the suggestions. It was DISPLAY that was the main, but not the sole problem. The thing is I tried it with DISPLAY and it didn't work, so then I did: cd /usr/bin ls *env* and was hoping to find SOMETHING that'd display all of your environment variables. < man printenv > says *printenv* does just that. So I did: : printenv >enviro and inserted file < enviro > into < crontab -e > editing session, and voila it worked. Then I commented out and tested it until I got down to just what was needed... PATH=... LD_LIBRARY=... DISPLAY=:0 (What is DISPLAY=0.0 mean as opposed to DISPLAY=:0 ????) So, that mystery is solved! ==== As for why something'd work for /etc/crontab and not for crontab -e is most likely something needed to be *root* permission Now I can my quarter(?)-written version of a cron away and use something that for sure works! Thanks again. -Steve -- Name: Steve Trapp Homepage: http://steventrapp.home.comcast.net Email: stevetrapp **AT** comcast **DOT** net Locale: en_US.UTF-8 | Location: Upper Midwest