vdirsyncer and crontab on FreeBSD
January 05, 2026 —
Nico Cartron
I use vdirsyncer to synchronise my contacts and calendars on my FreeBSD laptop.
Up to recently, I had to manually launch vdirsyncer as doing it from crontab would fail.
I finally fixed the problem thanks to this post on the FreeBSD forums: all you have to do is set LANG and it will work:
@hourly LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/local/bin/vdirsyncer sync
Tags: BSD