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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
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To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:56:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end
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On 14 Feb 2002 at 14:46, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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

Thanks.  But I prefer not to do that.  I'd prefer to fix crontab.  It 
breaks POLA.
-- 
Dan Langille
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