[PLUG] Cron advice needed

[Bill Barry]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:00 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:02:49 -0700
> Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >Another possibility is that the additional 9 characters made your text
> >editor decide to wrap the line, inserting a carriage return.
>
> It's not an o, it's definitely a zero. And besides, it worked before,
> and I didn't change that part of the line.
>
> Also, my text editor (nano, on the command line) did not wrap the line.
> I use gnome-terminal which allows me to set the size of the window, and
> it is plenty wide enough.
>
> The weird part is that I can write the file to disk (Ctrl-o in nano),
> but then I get the error message only when I try to exit nano (Ctrl-x).
>
> Still befuddled.
>

I pasted that line into my crontab and it works fine. It must be some other
line in the file. If that's the only used line in the file, delete
everything and type in the relevant line again.

Bill