Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:06:13 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: dan@langille.org, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Rogier Steehouder <r.j.s@gmx.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end Message-ID: <p05101402b8922ac1bf13@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200202142242.g1EMgJk29996@lists.unixathome.org> References: <200202142235.g1EMZIk29951@lists.unixathome.org> <200202142242.g1EMgJk29996@lists.unixathome.org>
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At 5:42 PM -0500 2/14/02, Dan Langille wrote: >On 14 Feb 2002 at 23:40, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > It doesn't have to. In Unix a 'line' is generally defined as zero > > or more non-newline characters followed by a newline. > > So if it doesn't have a newline at the end, it isn't a line. > >Good points. So do you think the exhibited behaviour conforms to >POLA? I don't. It may not match POLA, but it might be prudent simply as a slight safety measure. Perhaps that last line *was* cut off in the middle of the line, for instance. You wouldn't want to execute half the command. I do think it would be helpful if cron printed out a warning message, though, so the user has some chance of realizing what the problem is. I don't know how easy that would be. It sounds easy... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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