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Crontab -e error
Name: mosesg Date: May 11, 2004 at 01:03:15 Pacific OS: redhat 9.0 CPU/Ram: Celeron 1.7Ghz,128 Mb RAM
Comment:
When I run crontab -e and edit the file on saving the file I get the following message:
"Crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontabk.12473":1 bad minute errors in crontab file, can't install. Do you want to retry the same edit?
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