Post by DeeJay » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:00 pm An update. Everything seems to work as expected using gphoto2 v2.5.3 built using libgphoto2 v2.5.3.1 How did you install v2.5.3, DeeJay? (apt-get upgrade returns v2.4.14 for me on Raspbian 3.10.25+ #622 PREEMPT Fri Jan 3 18:41:00 GMT 2014 armv6l) Thanks Ch...

@ jojopi
Thanks. Yes, that would have done nicely.

And, as a new unix/linux/raspbian user, I've learned an essential lesson about system documentation conventions.

Thanks once again to you both for your help.

Chris F

Thanks, rpdom. I've been digging around and this is what I've found. 1. According to the POSIX documentation, cron starts crontab tasks in an environment that uses/includes the default ('system') shell /bin/sh. But in raspbian (debian too?) /bin/sh just references /bin/dash - type man sh and you get...

Going back to the original question:- There seems to be a difference in the redirection capabilities of (raspian) cron and bash. For example, the (pi) crontab entry: */10 * * * * ls -l > ./Ten.log creates (and recreates every 10 minutes) the expected file Ten.log containing a listing of pi's home di...