Hi, I do not find personal crontab file. how do I create it ? crontab -e says my personal file is not there If I want to run it as root then how do modify the following code as it is nor working .. ------------------- #!/bin/bash mkdir -p /home/USERNAME/org/backup && \ find $HOME -type f -name '*\.org' ! -path "/home/USERNAME/org/backup/*" \ -exec cp -t /home/USERNAME/org/backup/ \{\} \; echo "Daily Org Files Backup Successful: $(date)" >> /home/USERNAME/mybackupOrg.log ----------------------------- Thanks ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-18 00:32:00 +0530] wrote: > > > Even after 26th minute, there is no sign of the code in work. Is it that > > $HOME is not allowed and I need to give full path ? > > Ah, I thought that you'd run it from your personal crontab. So yes, > write paths from root's point of view. >