hey iam try to schedule my job in a file made in /etc/cron.d file as follows * * * * * tomcat6 /home/etika/Desktop/eka.sh /home/etika/Desktop/ea/etika.txt abc@xxxxxxxxx where eka.sh belongs to etika which is the root and etika.txt belong to tomcat6 this command is not running iam confused about the name of the owner written after the *'s please tell me whose name is written after the *'s(the schedule of the script) the owner of the script or the owner of the file which iam passing as an argument to the shell script