Another possibility is that the additional 9 characters made your text editor decide to wrap the line, inserting a carriage return.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Don Buchholz <buchh...@easystreet.net> wrote: > Are you sure it's a zero and not the letter 'O'? Are there any spaces to > the left of the '0'? > > On April 26, 2016 8:50:30 PM PDT, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:56:14 -0700 > >John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> dijo: > > > >>>You probably would benefit from the --delete flag. From the man page, > > > >>>this flag will "delete extraneous files from dest dirs" which I > >>>believe is what you want to accomplish. > >> > >>OK, I changed it to: > >> > >> rsync -avx --delete /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail > >> > >>And it seems to be working. > > > >I spoke to soon. It worked fine when I ran it directly from the command > >line, but crontab pukes it up: > > > >jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj$ crontab -e > >crontab: installing new crontab > >"/tmp/crontab.xbNVsm/crontab":0: bad minute > >errors in crontab file, can't install. > >Do you want to retry the same edit? (y/n) y > > > >This is the line in crontab: > > > >0 3 * * * rsync -avx --delete /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail > > > >The 'minute' is 0, which worked before. > > > >Suggestions? > >_______________________________________________ > >PLUG mailing list > >PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
