[BusyBox 0000063]: crond doesn't execute a crontab entry with no trailing EOL

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=63 
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Reported By:                sbyrnand
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   63
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             01-26-2005 14:31 PST
Last Modified:              09-01-2005 03:24 PDT
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Summary:                    crond doesn't execute a crontab entry with no
trailing EOL
Description: 
Spent about half an hour trying to figure out why my test crontab entry
wasn't being executed and finally discovered that if I have a single line
crontab entry with no end of line (LF ?) character following it, the entry
is ignored.

I havn't tested it with multiple lines with the last line missing an end
of line character, but it seems reasonable to assume the last entry wont
get executed, and probably needs checking too.

Since many editors such as e3 won't put an end of line character at the
end of a file unless you actually press enter, I can see a few people
falling for this problem ;)

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 psaksa - 08-12-05 03:20  
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Attached patch
- fixes whitespace issues during crontab parsing
- fixes memory overflow issues with libbb trim function (by Vladimir N.
Oleynik) 

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 landley - 09-01-05 03:24  
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r11310 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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01-26-05 14:31  sbyrnand       New Issue                                    
03-16-05 12:27  andersen       Assigned To              andersen => BusyBox 
03-17-05 05:18  psaksa         Issue Monitored: psaksa                      
08-12-05 03:10  psaksa         File Added: busybox-1.00-p03-crond.txt           
        
08-12-05 03:20  psaksa         Note Added: 0000407                          
08-13-05 11:03  swth           Issue Monitored: swth                        
09-01-05 03:24  landley        Status                   assigned => closed  
09-01-05 03:24  landley        Note Added: 0000479                          
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