Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:17:15 -0500 (EST) From: Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com> To: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202141507290.46349-100000@aeon.conundrum.com> In-Reply-To: <20020214145934.Y46360-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Scott Nolde wrote:
> Try "crontab -e" to edit your user's crontab. I'm not aware of using
> ~/crontab.
It's a perfectly valid way of editing one's crontab.
SYNOPSIS
crontab [-u user] file
crontab [-u user] { -l | -r | -e }
I do it this way myself, so that I can keep a copy of the file under RCS:
% cd ~
% co -l crontab
% vi crontab
% ci -u crontab
% crontab ~/crontab
I managed to reproduce this user's problem, but I had to work at it. Simply
editing the file with a text editor won't do it, since most leave a \n at the
end of even the last line. I had to do this:
% echo -n "* * * * * ls ~/bin" > crontab
% crontab crontab
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but his observations are at least valid.
It seems bug-like to me, though probably not a very high priority one.
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