On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:50:21 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > > > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > > > > > > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne, > > > > It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab > > > > Eh? > > It doesn't do either > > Anne Sounds like there is an empty crontab for nobody. Should be able to verify this by 'ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/nobody'. What if you try to remove it by running 'crontab -l nobody -r'? -Chris