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A recent change to the Cron package introduced field validation. Although the UI specifies time examples, some users may have entered special strings (e.g., @reboot) in the minute field, while leaving other time fields blank.

Example:

@reboot root sleep 300 && dosomething

The FreeBSD man page for Cron

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crontab&sektion=5&format=html

string meaning
------ -------
@reboot Run once, at startup of cron.
@yearly Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 ".
@annually (same as @yearly)
@monthly Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".
@weekly Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0".
@daily Run once a day, "0 0 * * *".
@midnight (same as @daily)
@hourly Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".
@every_minute Run once a minute, "/1 * * * *".
@every_second Run once a second.

@reboot appears to be the only non-time special string. The others could be written long hand.

Perhaps update the UI example, and allow one exception for @reboot?