Hi, I want to run a crontab job. I have configured the crontab accordingly 10 * * * * /scripts/dbalter.pl >> /scripts/cronout.txt.However this does not work .Then I go to /var/mail/root and find an error in the output: ###################################################################################################################################### From root@myserver Wed Feb 4 17:02:00 2009 Return-Path: <root@myserver> Received: from myserver (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myserver (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n14N20Rx027373 for <root@myserver>; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by myserver (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id n14N20Is027371 for root; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST) From: Super-User <root@myserver> Message-Id: <200902042302.n14N20Is027371@myserver> To: root@myserver Subject: Output from "cron" command MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 136 Your "cron" job on myserver /usr/bin/perl/ /scripts/dbalter.pl produced the following output: sh: /usr/bin/perl/: cannot execute ######################################################################################################################## bash-3.00£ env LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1 TERM=xterm SHELL=/sbin/sh SSH_CLIENT=138.85.45.27 28249 22 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1 OLDPWD=/ SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2 USER=root PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAIL=/var/mail//root LC_MESSAGES=C LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1 PWD=/var/adm EDITOR=vi TZ=US/Central SHLVL=1 HOME=/ LOGNAME=root SSH_CONNECTION=138.85.45.27 28249 10.25.30.190 22 LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1 _=/usr/bin/env #######################################################################################################################3 Also I want to mail the output to an outlook account.Please let me know about it.I really appreciate the help. Regards Sonu