I have the cron installed, my crontab is: */2 * * * * perl -e 'open(FILE, ">/cygdrive/c/deleteMe.txt") or die $!; print FILE (time."\n"); close(FILE)' but nothing is going on. Marcos -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/