(Cc:ing new bug report. Feel free to drop the old one.)
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:13:31AM -0700, Justin T Pryzby wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> > On 04/03/2011 05:45 PM, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 04:34:18PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
>
> > > Regarding the more general issue of invalidating the whole file, do you
> > > mind
> > > if I file a new wishlist bug report?
> >
> > On the contrary, I'd welcome it.
>
> It's my understanding that ending a parse of a file once any invalid
> line is encountered is deliberate, and was (at least intended to) put
> in place after cron was used to break into a debian server. See
> #378153.
We have already discussed this in this bug report earlier, as I recall, that
was for a wholly invalid file with binary data or something like that, not a
trivial syntax error in a crontab(5) line.
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