Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:23:40 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end Message-ID: <200202142026.g1EKQUk28938@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202141507290.46349-100000@aeon.conundrum.com> References: <20020214145934.Y46360-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
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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. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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