Start by giving us more information (OS and version... since I dont know much UNIx accepting backslash like that...)
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i created 1 txt file a.cron
mirrordir -vm \home\t \homet1
& i saved it.
OK
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then i created a crontab file ..with
crontab -e
You didnt, You edited the existing one... And modified it...
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when i run crontab a.cron
it comes up with error .. :1: bad mintue time
And now you replaced your root crontab file by : a.cron
And what was the line in it already?
Not surprising you get that error message... but just one question :
How are you going to recover the original root crontab file with its contents, or was it just a test file?