Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:46:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entries need a CR/LF at the end Message-ID: <20020214204634.GA89093@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200202142026.g1EKQUk28938@lists.unixathome.org> References: <20020214145934.Y46360-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> <200202142026.g1EKQUk28938@lists.unixathome.org>
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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 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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