Bug 103899 – crontab -l keeps extraneous headers

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Bug 103899 - crontab -l keeps extraneous headers

Summary:	crontab -l keeps extraneous headers

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	vixie-cron (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Jens Petersen
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Blocks:	170805
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Reported:	2003-09-06 16:33 EDT by Damian Menscher
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:57 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-08-30 18:49:43 EDT
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Description Damian Menscher 2003-09-06 16:33:28 EDT

Description of problem:
If you do a crontab -l it prefixes the user crontab with extra comments:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.20699 installed on Sat Sep  6 15:24:23 2003)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)

After several iterations of
 crontab -l > ctab
 vi ctab
 crontab ctab
you end up with a lot of extra headers.

That header is supposed to be in the cron file in /var/spool/cron, but NOT be
reported to the user.  Especially since there's no reason for them to not edit a
file they create via crontab -l.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-3.0.1-74

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create user crontab
2. crontab -l

Actual Results:  Extra headers reported

Expected Results:  No headers... only user comments.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2004-06-30 13:58:16 EDT

Should be fixed in vixie-cron-3.0.1-94 in rawhide shortly.

Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2004-08-30 18:49:43 EDT

This has been fixed since vixie-cron-3.0.1-94 (current release
vixie-cron-4.1-10).

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