[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Jay Leafey wrote:

> aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> No hard links, some sym links.
>> But I see what you are saying.
>> Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab
>> * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target
>> - aurf
>
> So you want rsync to run every minute in the 10 PM hour?  I think  
> that first "*" needs to be replaced with a number designating the  
> minute within the hour during which you want it to start.  What you  
> have there would kick off separate jobs at 22:00, 22:01, 22:02, etc.

I think I been staring at the screen too long.

Thanks for that catch, my bad.

I am a lamerz.

- aurf