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** Also affects: cron (CentOS)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118168
Title:
Crontab accepts files with no newline before EOL/EOF. Cron ignores
file
Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in cron package in CentOS:
New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: cron
Install a default editor which doesn't automatically enter a newline
before EOF such as Jed or vi. (nano adds newline).
Add a user's crontab using crontab -e. Omit newline at end of file.
Actual behaviour:
Crontab installs the user's crontab. Crontab does not complain the user's crontab has no new line at end of file.
Check to see if any of the user's cron tasks run. None run.
Edit user's crontab again, adding new line at end of crontab. Check
to see if any user's cron tasks run. All seem to run OK.
Expected behaviour:
Crontab should complain the file it is installing has no new line at end of file, or should install new line silently.
This behaviour has been verified on irc.freenode.net#ubuntu between
23:00 and 0:00 BST 31st May 2007. Consensus: Is 100% a bug, should be
reported.
Affects: All versions of Vixiecron. All versions of Ubuntu.
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