Hi, Did you use full paths to your executables in your script? If you run an script from crontab, you could have other/missing enviroment variables. Best regards, Joost On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:04:18 +0200, "Jennifer Botten" <jennifer at etech.co.za> wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to have a problem with crontab. I am running CentOS 5.5. If I > add my bakup scripts into crontab they take very long to run. If I run > my scripts manually they run 100%. I have also tried vixiecron, same > issue. Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Jenny