Why is cron showing "Bad File Mode" error and not executing the jobs ?

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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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