Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
- Subject: Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
- From: pagani laurent <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:43:56 +0100
> Le 21 févr. 2017 à 16:33, Tom Lane <email@hidden> a écrit :
>
> pagani laurent <email@hidden> writes:
>> Since I moved from Lion to Sierra, I meet a number of problems with XQuartz, some I solved, some I am stuck.
>
> FWIW, I've seen no such problems ...
>
>> One general problem is slowliness. The start of a shell or a subshell can take ages now.
>
> I'd suggest looking very closely at whatever custom steps you may have
> added to ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, etc (or corresponding startup scripts
> for whatever shell you use).
tcsh… but I changed nothing in the .cshrc file after migrating but OK, I should have a look indeed though I am not very strong at that.
>> A very annoying problem is the following :
>> I used to launch a Rsync procedure in a .csh file towards an external HD via a crontab scheduler.
>
> Hm, which rsync are you using?
/opt/local/bin/rsync
built with Macports. I suppose that calling it thru crontab or ”by hand” makes no difference.
> The one Apple ships in /usr/bin is
> depressingly old. I use one built from sources, no special modifications,
> and it works just fine for me. It's substantially more reliable than
> Time Machine, which has started corrupting its backups on a regular
> basis since I installed Sierra :-(.
>
> Also, it seems possible that this is really the same problem as your
> other problem, if you have something in ~/.cshrc that isn't playing
> nice with Sierra.
Could be. I will check.
Thanks for the hint,
LP
"S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y a pas de problème" (devise Shadok)
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