Bug 133677

Summary:	dcron: last character of the last crontab command is missing
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Faber <bugs--gentoo.org>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	bugzilla-gentoo, jer, matrixhax0r
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Matt's solution from dcron-3.2

Description Daniel Faber 2006-05-18 04:52:09 UTC

If the last line in a crontab is not terminated by a newline character, the last character of the command in that line will be ignored.

Steps to reproduce:

Append the following line to your crontab and DO NOT terminate this last line with a newline character:

* * * * * echo This is a bug

The mail you will receive has subject "echo This is a bu" and body "This is a bu".

I reported this bug to the author and it is fixed in version 3.2 but the latest version in portage is 2.9.

Comment 1 Daniel Faber 2006-05-18 04:56:41 UTC

Created attachment 86991 [details, diff]
Matt's solution from dcron-3.2

This patch reflects Matt's solution and is applyable to dcron-2.9.  Please add it to the portage tree.

Comment 2 David Li 2006-07-08 14:08:31 UTC

Comment #1: Why isn't dcron updated to 3.2? Should someone file a bug for a revision bump?

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-02 19:39:25 UTC

A version bump of the current ebuild to 3.2 works fine, including all three current patches left unchanged.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-10-04 14:33:56 UTC

3.2 now in portage