Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-105
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

from crontab(5):

| Each line has five time and date fields, followed by a command,
| followed by a newline character ('\n').

When editing a user crontab with 'crontab -e' the syntax is checked -
except of the newline character. This may result in the last cronjob
beeing silently ignored when the newline character is missing.
This might be a rare case but can still be very uncomfortable if a
cronjob is not executed as expected. Therefore it would be nice to
syntax check the newline, too.


Many thanks,

Andreas



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.110          add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils               2.30           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.11.1-3       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpam0g                  1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1               2.0.65-5       SELinux shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.6.5-3    High-performance mail transport ag

Versions of packages cron suggests:
pn  anacron                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  checksecurity                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  lockfile-progs                <none>     (no description available)
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-5    Log rotation utility

-- no debconf information



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