Unable to add cron entry: "/tmp/crontab.XxxXXX":xx: bad minute
Issue
- Unable to add cron entry. While saving crontab we get below error message:
$ crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.PXbEEW":82: bad minute
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Do you want to retry the same edit? N
crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.PXbEEW
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- cronie
- vim
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