Re: About ISC-cron

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:25:02 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <40F9110F.13794.15FF9E60_at_localhost>
            "Dan Langille" <dan_at_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
Received on Sun Jul 18 2004 - 13:26:18 UTC

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