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.
Should be fixed in vixie-cron-3.0.1-94 in rawhide shortly.
This has been fixed since vixie-cron-3.0.1-94 (current release vixie-cron-4.1-10).