That worked. That line to get crond running was the "missing piece." Thanks! I still think Gcrontab is barbaric. I'm a little hazy on what you do to make your crontab active. In Gcrontab, I open my crontab file (I saved it as /etc/crontab, although I'm not sure that's mandatory) and "...

I have my scripts ready. They're in /usr/local/bin. They're executable. I've tested them. But I can't seem to get the cron job to work. Since Puppy has no vi, crontab -e doesn't work. I'm trying to use Gcrontab, but I'm not sure how it works. This page is no help: http://www.arquired.es/users/aldelg...