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Re: edit crontab without saving, installs it anyway on NetBSD 6.0?



In article <EE08F7B0-929F-4AC2-A19E-94C690F8FF63%nordu.net@localhost>,
Fredrik Pettai  <pettai%nordu.net@localhost> wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>Then I edit the crontab using crontab -e and just exit without saving
>(with :q!) on a older NetBSD system, it typically looks like this:
>
># crontab -e
>crontab: no changes made to crontab
>
>And the cron log says:
>Nov  2 21:38:06 typhoon crontab[5456]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root) 
>Nov  2 21:38:09 typhoon crontab[5456]: (root) END EDIT (root) 
>
>Then I do the same procedure on my NetBSD 6.0, it looks like this:
># crontab -e
>crontab: no changes made to crontab
>
>cron log says:
>Nov  2 21:51:18 morran crontab[15278]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
>Nov  2 21:51:23 morran crontab[15278]: (root) REPLACE (root)
>Nov  2 21:51:23 morran crontab[15278]: (root) END EDIT (root)
>
>Bug or feature?

Bug, can you cvs update crontab.c (only) not config.h to HEAD, re-install
and see if that works?

christos



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