>Number:         10957
>Category:       admin
>Synopsis:       cron ignores last line of crontab if newline is missing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    system-admin
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 05 12:13:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ed Ravin
>Release:        1.5_ALPHA
>Organization:
Public Access Networks, Inc.
>Environment:
NetBSD trinity.panix.com 1.5_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (PANIX-STD) #0: Tue Jul 25 17:13:59 EDT 2000     marcotte@trinity.panix.com:/devel/netbsd/current-20000725/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PANIX-STD i386

>Description:

If the last line of a user's crontab does not end in newline, cron
ignores the entry.
>How-To-Repeat:

use emacs to edit your crontab (EDITOR=emacs crontab -e)
go to end of last line.  type control-k several times to
destroy the terminating newline.  save file - the last entry
will no longer be executed by cron.
>Fix:

if cron can't be fixed to accept the newline-less line, the "crontab"
command should warn the user about the problem (happens when you use
emacs to edit your crontab via the "crontab -e" command).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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