Hello everyone, This problem began when I installed IBM's Via Voice, I am just beggining to get my hands wet in the world of Unix and hope someone can help. When I open a Terminal window, I am told I have new mail, when I type Mail, I see that I have 100+ Messages, and the number gets larger by about 5-10 everyday... It looks like the messages are being sent by something to do with ViaVoice which I have removed all traces of from my system... I can't seem to figure out why there messages are here... Here is a few lines of the response to "Mail": U 61 chris@Christopher-Al Mon Oct 27 22:51 20/ 1011 "Cron <chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer> "/Ap" U 62 chris@Christopher-Al Mon Oct 27 23:06 20/ 1011 "Cron <chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer> "/Ap" U 63 chris@Christopher-Al Mon Oct 27 23:21 20/ 1011 "Cron <chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer> "/Ap" And an example of the individual message: Message 71: From chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer.local Tue Oct 28 01:21:02 2003 X-Original-To: chris@Christopher-Alois- Computer.local Delivered-To: chris@Christopher-Alois- Computer.local From: chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer.local (Cron Daemon) To: chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer.local Subject: Cron <chris@Christopher-Alois-Computer> "/Applications/ViaVoice/prt_reminder.sh" "/ Applications/ViaVoice/ViaVoice Registration.app/ Contents/MacOS/PRT" "ViaVoice_ViaVoice Registration" X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/Users/chris> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=chris> X-Cron-Env: <USER=chris> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:21:02 -0500 (EST) /bin/sh: line 1: /Applications/ViaVoice/ prt_reminder.sh: No such file or directory Any Idea how I can stop this ?

Hi, have a look into your crontab (crontab -e) an check if there is an entry with: "/Applications/ViaVoice/prt_reminder.sh"or "/Applications/ViaVoice/ViaVoiceRegistration.app/ If you removed you application you can delete this rows. If you don't removed the application correct destination of /Applications/ViaVoice/prt_reminder.sh If you don't find an entry have a look into roots crontab if she use su - chris ....

Ok I found that line in the crontab, question is.. how do I remove it ? --thanks so much for your help, as I stated I am new to Unix.

There is more than one way to edit the crontab. I use:- crontab -l > crontab-copy as an overkill create a second copy crontab -l > crontab-original Then use vi to edit the crontab-copy vi crontab-copy Press Escape Cursor down to the offending line Press Escape Enter dd Press Escape Enter :wq! When happy with your edits Enter crontab crontab-copy Check crontab with crontab -l