I'm a windows 2000 user with a Quake 3 game server being hosted on a remote Linux machine. I've been playing around with telnetting over to the linux machine and I know a little about scripting. The game server creates and writes data to a log file called games.log. My goal is to have a directory with a log file for each day. Basically, I want to write a script that each morning at 4am, it renames the games.log file to the current date (example: 09-14-03.log) and moves it to another directory. Simple enough, right? But I'm a beginner when it comes to Unix scripting. I can handle the renaming and moving... but how do I make this occur once per day at 4am without me having to do anything? I'm using BASH shell. Any advice would be appreciated. Kris junk2 at spatter dot net

Have a look at cron and crontabs. The man pages for cron will show you how to set up repeating tasks.