OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I still have a problem creating crontab. I run crontab -e and it fires up emacs (my editor of choice) but can't create the crontab file becuase the temp version is unreadable. I also tried to open it using another editor by was denied access. Any thoughts anyone? Thanks Paul -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple