i've been trying to create a cron script that will search the entire boot volume for all instances of "AdobeFnt*.lst" and delete those files. here are two scripts (slightly different syntax) that seem to do the trick but i wanted to run it by you guys (my gurus...my gods...my...um...well, you get the idea <g>)... these two seem to do the same thing: find / -name 'AdobeFnt*.lst' -exec rm -f {} \; (and) find / -name "AdobeFnt*.lst" -exec rm -f {} ';' first question: which script is best for using as cron job? second question: users will keep volumes mounted...is there a way to keep the script from searching anything that's not a local disk? ====here's the terminal display==== [montalvdpb:~] root # find / -name "AdobeFnt*.lst" -exec rm -f {} ';' find: /Volumes/SHARE/.Trashes: Permission denied find: /Volumes/SHARE/dropboxes: Permission denied find: /Volumes/SHARE/Temporary Items/0: Permission denied find: /Volumes/SHARE/Temporary Items/501: Permission denied find: /Volumes/SHARE/Temporary Items/502: Permission denied [montalvdpb:~] root # =================================== thanks! don