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Another fun one is that if your file doesn't end in a newline, cron will silently ignore the last line! Lost a couple days of production data at my last job due

Another fun one is that if your file doesn't end in a newline, cron will silently ignore the last line! Lost a couple days of production data at my last job due to that "feature".

oasisbob 15y ago
IIRC, OpenBSD has some similar issues with PF rules, and perhaps other configuration files as well. I can't remember if it refuses to parse the file or ignores the last line, but it's not a fun thing to bump against.
there 15y ago
what editor are you using that doesn't add a newline?