[Bug 271582] cron is not picking up schedule from file in /usr/local/etc/cron.d directory unless you touch the file

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 12:36:04 UTC 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271582

            Bug ID: 271582
           Summary: cron is not picking up schedule from file in
                    /usr/local/etc/cron.d directory unless you touch the
                    file
           Product: Base System
           Version: 13.2-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: abhay.rathod@quest.com

In FreeBSD 13.2, cron scheduler is not picking up file in
/usr/local/etc/cron.d/ that exists prior to cron daemon was started at boot
time. You need to touch the file to change the modified time and then the file
is picked up by cron scheduler. This seems to be a new behavior in Freebsd 13
which wasn't the case in FreeBSD 12.3. 

Were there any changes made in cron that affects this ?

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