Fcron is a scheduler that can replace and is far superior to both vixie-cron & anacron. I have often wondered at the relatively small level of take up, which I now realise could be a consequence of the rpm installation being misconfigured in SL6, and going all the way back to RH8. Before discovering this lately I used to have to always re-install from raw tarball to get working software. Fcron has a default installation directory of /etc, and when custom installing to some other <DESTDIR> instead, as the RH rpm does, there are special instructions to be followed. The RH rpm for fcron does not follow those instructions in relation to PAM and, while apparently installing ok, ends up broken, with a spurious pam.conf file under /usr/local/etc. Sean