Try to be a little more specific. What exactly do you want to do with cron? Why is this a Perl issue? Is it because the director's interface is a web form that you are parsing with Perl? Let me also second the motion that you read the cron man page before worrying about Schedule::Cron. Most importantly, note that Schedule::Cron is not a module for accessing your system's cron scheduler; it is for doing cron-like scheduling within a Perl program. I'm guessing that it will be cleaner to modify cron by hand to call a little perl script that will take the daily entries and pack them up in an email for the director. Mail::Send is a nice module for this sort of thing.