Why is cron showing "Bad File Mode" error and not executing the jobs ?
Issue
- Users are not able to execute their jobs through
cron.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- cronie-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
- cronie-anacron-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
- crontabs-1.10-33.el6.noarch
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