From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 Description of problem: if you try to install the following job with crontab -e $ crontab -e (EDITOR pops up) */ * * * * command (save file, quit editor) Instead of returning to the prompt the /usr/bin/crontab program enters an endless loop, consuming 100% of the cpu cycles. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. crontab -e 2. */ * * * * any-command 3. save file, quit editor Actual Results: /usr/bin/crontab entered an endless loop Expected Results: An error message explaining that there was a syntax error in the crontab Additional info:
Created attachment 97368 [details] Flag "numbers" with 0 characters as errors The attached patch should fix this border case.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89937 ***
Thanks for the patch.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.