Setting the EDITOR to something that will solve the problem is a workaround. It's helpful, but really it's just a band-aid; cron needs to be fixed. If it weren't written in C I would submit the patch myself. There is no reason to silently ignore user input. Adding a newline silently would save a lot of frustration, and nobody is relying on the current behaviour.
BTW, in Emacs just add this to your .emacs file: (setq require-final- newline t) -- Crontab accepts files with no newline before EOL/EOF. Cron ignores file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118168 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
