A step-by-step guide to setting up automatic music syncing from a desktop to a rooted Android phone (CyanogenMod) using rsync over SSH and a cron job. Covers generating SSH keys with dropbearkey, creating symlinks to make Android's filesystem more FHS-compatible, writing a sync script with fallback host support, and scheduling it to run hourly via cron.

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Sanity checksSetting up SSHMaking Android more saneUpdate script and initial importCron