diff -ru dcron-2.9/database.c dcron-2.9-newlinefix/database.c
--- dcron-2.9/database.c	2002-03-22 18:54:46.000000000 +0100
+++ dcron-2.9-newlinefix/database.c	2006-05-18 13:01:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -169,12 +169,14 @@
 		while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fi) != NULL && --maxLines) {
 		    CronLine line;
 		    char *ptr = buf;
+		    int len;
 
 		    while (*ptr == ' ' || *ptr == '\t' || *ptr == '\n')
 			++ptr;
 
-		    if (*ptr)
-			ptr[strlen(ptr)-1] = 0;
+		    len = strlen(ptr);
+		    if (len && ptr[len-1] == '\n')
+			ptr[--len] = 0;
 
 		    if (*ptr == 0 || *ptr == '#')
 			continue;