Asri-unix.571 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!hpvax!sri-unix!Lepreau@UTAH-20 Mon Jan 18 21:09:28 1982 Horrible cron bug (you've already seen this, Usenet) I sent this to net.bugs on Usenet awhile ago, but figure it's bad enuf that the Arpa folks should see it. It's in both v7 and 4.1. Ever been plagued with dissappearing cron's? We have... Would occasionally core dump (oh so silently) at start up or reread of crontab if had entry > 100 chars. A completely undoc'ed restriction. Change to 400 chars (also undoc'ed). Should be fixed properly, but this does for now. Change listing: ----------- 1c1 static char *sccsid = "@(#)cron.c 4.3 (Berkeley) 11/30/81"; 9a10 > #define MAXLINEL 400 /* Max length between real \n's */ 158c159 list+listsize-100) { --- > if(cp > list+listsize-MAXLINEL) { ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.