NetBSD Problem Report #42963

From ryoh@bonnie.jaist.ac.jp  Fri Mar 12 05:31:37 2010
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From: Ryo HAYASAKA <ryoh@jaist.ac.jp>
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Subject: crontab(5) has an error
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>Number:         42963
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       crontab(5) has an error
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 12 05:35:00 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Fri Mar 12 09:38:05 +0000 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Mar 12 09:40:02 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Ryo HAYASAKA
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.24
>Organization:
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
>Environment:
System: NetBSD bonnie.jaist.ac.jp 5.99.24 NetBSD 5.99.24 (GENERIC) #1: Fri Mar 12 12:28:38 JST 2010 root@bonnie.jaist.ac.jp:/c/ryoh/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
In crontab(5) http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?crontab+5+NetBSD-current ,

...
     A field may begin with a question mark (`')?, which indicates a single
     value randomly selected when the crontab file is read.  If the field con-
     tains only a question mark, the value is randomly selected from the range
     of all possible values for the field.  If the question mark precedes a
     range, the value is randomly selected from the range.  For example, ``?
...

is the follwing correct at the first line?

     A field may begin with a question mark (`?'), which indicates a single
                                            ^^^^^

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: wiz@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:38:05 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Fixed, thanks!


From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/42963 CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/cron
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:36:15 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	wiz
 Date:		Fri Mar 12 09:36:15 UTC 2010

 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.sbin/cron: crontab.5

 Log Message:
 Quote question mark so it's correctly marked up.
 Problem reported by Ryo HAYASAKA in PR 42963.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab.5

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

>Unformatted:

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