Thanks Rex, here is what I have settled for, <snip /home/me/crontab> 30 10,16,20 * * * /home/me/cvs_backup </snip>
<snip /home/me/cvs_backup> #! /bin/bash export BACKUPT=`date +%d%m%Y_%H%M` cvs commit -m $BACKUPT </snip> And I chmod 774 cvs_backup, it runs .... Mark
