for people interested in the crontab problem

["Leeds, Mark" <mleeds@mlp.com>]

thank you to all those people who sent suggestions

and answers. I took Bill Dunlap's suggestion

and checked whether I had any dead processes

out there that were somehow still showing

up when I use the "top" command.

I use ps -e | grep Sqpe and

I had NINE dead processes so I killed

them all and then the crontab started

to work !!!!!  I use Linux so maybe

it is not good at removing processes that

were killed/interrupted/did not complete cleanly etc.

thank you again to everyone.

 

 

                                            mark