Ugh. webcams and spaces

Webcam There are times where you really begin to doubt yourself. If you stick with it you will generally succeed, determine the problem and insure that it does not happen again. Setting up a simple webcam should not be a problem. I have done posts on it, have implemented many over the last few years using a raspberry pi, pi-cam or usb cam and was able to get them to work. This time it was different. Because I have been spending most of my time in unity, c# and VR development, all of the linux/pi stuff took a total back seat. Commands had left the building and I had a hard time remembering what I had done.. even though I spent countless hours creating, coding and documenting it. I have spent the last three weekends trying to get a simple camera to post for my personal weather station. It seemed that no matter what I did, I could not get it to work. Even reloading a known good image failed. I tried using python and ftp, wget and file push and nothing was working. I believe that they have blocked ftp on my internet connection. I really do not have time to figure it out specifically. I was however able to get a file uploaded using curl but could not automate it. Checking lines in the crontab proved fruitless because everything in the new config matched the old config..verbatim.. except for the file it was processing. After numerous attempts I changed crontab to * * * * * filename.sh which would process the push every minute. It worked but is too small of a timeframe for image uploads. Back to the docs... website after website I checked and I checked.. crontab samples, crontab articles and they all looked like what I had in my crontab. Then I saw it /5* not /5 * ugh.. one space makes all of the difference. /5 is not percentage which I thought, it is stepping. I thought that the second * was supposed to be in the next column but I was wrong.. it goes next to the /5. So if you find yourself with crontab problems, check your paths, check permissions and above all else.. check for spaces! I believe I better check the site and make sure I did not do the same in any of my posts. Unfortunately, by the time I finished it was dark so the image is black.. lol Thumbs up!