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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:25:02 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        dan@langille.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About ISC-cron
Message-ID:  <20040718.092502.11989808.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <40F9110F.13794.15FF9E60@localhost>
References:  <20040717153016.GA3805@frontfree.net> <40F9110F.13794.15FF9E60@localhost>

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            "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes:
: On 17 Jul 2004 at 23:30, Xin LI wrote:
: 
: > /* POLA will be respected :-) */
: 
: One thing about /etc/crontab which has caught out many people:  the 
: last entry must have an ENTER at the end of the line or it will be 
: ignored.

Actually, it must have a newline at the end of the line.

: FWIW, /etc/sysctl.conf has the same issue.

This one is a lot harder to fix, because shell will ignore the last
line.

Warner



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