How can I backup a cron job? i dont want to create a cron job to backup something... i want to backup the cron job itself, just the settings to have crontab execute that job. Thank you.

You can copy the file that contains your cron jobs to a backup location easily enough. The files that contain your cron jobs are located at /var/spool/cron/$USER (e.g.: If I have a user account 'joe' on my system, joe's cron job file would be /var/spool/cron/joe). /var/spool/cron is accessible only by the root user. In KDE, open a terminal window, su to root, start the file manager (konqueror -profile filemanagement), navigate to /var/spool/cron and copy the file to the backup location of your choice. You can also switch to a console screen, log in as root, and copy it: cp /var/spool/cron/joe /home/joe/joe Or you can use the Midnight Commander (mc). If you are smart enough to do regular backups, you can include /var/spool/cron in your system wide incremental back up routine. HTH, Ernie Registered Linux User 247790 ICQ 41060744