I've setup two cron jobs to run , setup as root and set to run as root, on a 10.3.3 OS X Server machine. The permissions for the scripts called by the crontab are set for read,write & execute for root user only, and I can invoke the scripts manually as root. But the cron job does not run. When I added these jobs to the crontab, there was no error message either. Here's the listing (crontab -l) : 45 1 * * * root /etc/ditto_daily.sh 15 0 * * 1,2,4,6 root /etc/junkmailcleanup.sh The permissions for the first script: -rwx------ 1 root wheel 1005 8 Apr 11:51 /etc/ditto_daily.sh Please tell me the stupid and obvious thing I'm overlooking, and how you would go about logging the results of cron jobs... In order to look for/track down errors or problems