Ian mu wrote: > Basically I have a perl script that runs once, first thing every > morning, gathering some stats (currently turned off due to problem). > Crontab -l shows the following... > > 00 6 * * * nice /home/statsman/stats/run_stats.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 (.sh > file basically sources with full path a config with some vars, then runs > the perl script). The first thing I would do to put some echos in run_stats.sh and change > /dev/null to > /path/somefile If you're getting as far as the perl script, put some print statements in it. You might try doing an strace from cron: 00 6 * * * strace -f -oOutputFile /home/statsman/stats/run_stats.sh >/path/somefile 2>&1 -Mark