And I updated the bdb aras@nebka:~$ /home/aras/acis/bin/crontab.hourly db_checkpoint: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version db_checkpoint: open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch nebka:/home/aras/install# apt-get install db4.6-util Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: db4.6-util 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 104kB of archives. After this operation, 315kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://debian.uchicago.edu stable/main db4.6-util 4.6.21-11 [104kB] Fetched 104kB in 22s (4721B/s) Selecting previously deselected package db4.6-util. (Reading database ... 40159 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking db4.6-util (from .../db4.6-util_4.6.21-11_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up db4.6-util (4.6.21-11) ... changed crontab.hourly to say /usr/bin/db4.6_checkpoint -1 -h ~/acis/RI/data && /usr/bin/db4.6_archive -d -h ~/acis/RI/data Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel