According to bug #63, crond is unhappy with crontab lines that don't end in a

newline, or lines that have trailing spaces.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/trim.c b/libbb/trim.c
index 38aa28231..0dca6678e 100644
--- a/libbb/trim.c
+++ b/libbb/trim.c
@@ -29,14 +29,18 @@
 
 void trim(char *s)
 {
-        int len = strlen(s);
+        size_t len = strlen(s);
+        size_t lws;
 
         /* trim trailing whitespace */
-        while ( len > 0 && isspace(s[len-1]))
-                s[--len]='\0';
+        while (len && isspace(s[len-1])) --len;
 
         /* trim leading whitespace */
-        memmove(s, &s[strspn(s, " \n\r\t\v")], len);
+        if(len) {
+                lws = strspn(s, " \n\r\t\v");
+                memmove(s, s + lws, len -= lws);
+        }
+        s[len] = 0;
 }
 
 /* END CODE */
diff --git a/miscutils/crond.c b/miscutils/crond.c
index 085cf6e9d..53c255fef 100644
--- a/miscutils/crond.c
+++ b/miscutils/crond.c
@@ -589,10 +589,8 @@ static void SynchronizeFile(const char *fileName)
                                         CronLine line;
                                         char *ptr;
 
-                                        if (buf[0]) {
-                                                buf[strlen(buf) - 1] = 0;
-                                        }
-                                        if (buf[0] == 0 || buf[0] == '#' || buf[0] == ' ' || buf[0] == '\t') {
+                                        trim(buf);
+                                        if (buf[0] == 0 || buf[0] == '#') {
                                                 continue;
                                         }
                                         if (--maxEntries == 0) {