Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:01:24 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end Message-ID: <20020214145934.Y46360-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <200202141955.g1EJt3k28638@lists.unixathome.org>
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Thus sayeth the previous author: >Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:54:59 -0500 >From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> >To: questions@freebsd.org >Cc: dan@langille.org >Subject: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end > >Here's what I did: > >I edited ~/crontab and added an entry. That new line did not end in a >CR/LF (i.e. I didn't hit ENTER at the end of the line). Then I did a >crontab ~/crontab and watched /var/log/cron. The job was never run. > >I then modified the crontab to contain an ENTER at the end of that line, >and did another crontab ~/crontab. Then the job run. > >I've been bitten by this at least three times. And I've seen other get it >too. IMHO, it breaks POLA. Anyone agree? I can't see anything in the >man pages about this. I must also be a simple fix. >-- >Dan Langille >The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples > Try "crontab -e" to edit your user's crontab. I'm not aware of using ~/crontab. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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