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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
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