From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 12:46:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA0B37B41A for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1EKkYn65120; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:46:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:46:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Dan Langille Cc: Matt of the Long Red Hair , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end Message-ID: <20020214204634.GA89093@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020214145934.Y46360-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> <200202142026.g1EKQUk28938@lists.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202142026.g1EKQUk28938@lists.unixathome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 14), Dan Langille said: > On 14 Feb 2002 at 15:17, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote: > > > 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 > > FWIW, I was using joe > > > 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. > > Thank you. And agreed, definintely low-priority. You can adjust joe's behaviour by removing the leading space from this line in your joerc: -force Force final newline when files are saved -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message