About ISC-cron

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jul 18 08:26:18 PDT 2004


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


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