random minute is not working as expected

[davidmoreirafr]

Describe your experience

When trying to add the following cron table entries with the code example, the first entry is deleted by the second entry.

~ seems to not behave properly if placed as a minute.

Expected behavior

crontab -l should return

~ * * * * -ns sleep 0
~ * * * * -ns sleep 1

I had the following:

~ * * * * -ns sleep 1

How to reproduce it

Run the code example in a task.

Code example

desc "..";
task 'cron_bug', group => 'all', sub {
  cron add => "root", {
      minute => "~",
      command => "-ns sleep 0"
  };
  cron add => "root", {
      minute => "~",
      command => "-ns sleep 1"
  };
};

Additional context

Had to fix the file `usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/Rex/Cron/FreeBSD.pm with the patch

diff -u /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/Rex/Cron/FreeBSD.pm\~ /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/Rex/Cron/FreeBSD.pm                               
--- /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/Rex/Cron/FreeBSD.pm~     Sat Aug  5 21:34:38 2023                                                              
+++ /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/Rex/Cron/FreeBSD.pm      Sun Mar  1 06:59:00 2026                                                              
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                      
   my $command = '( crontab -l';                                                                                                                      
   $command .= " -u $user" if defined $user;                                                                                                          
-  $command .= " >$tmp_file ) >& /dev/null ; cat $tmp_file ; rm $tmp_file";                                                                           
+  $command .= " >$tmp_file ) 2> /dev/null ; cat $tmp_file ; rm $tmp_file";                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                      
   my @lines = i_run $command;                                                                                                                        
   $self->parse_cron(@lines);                                 

The issue seems to be the ~ as a minute, it's running as expected with when using the following:

• minute => "0"
• hour => "~"

Rex version

(R)?ex 1.14.3

Installation method

package manager

Perl version

This is perl 5, version 40, subversion 1 (v5.40.1) built for amd64-openbsd

Operating system running rex

OpenBSD 7.8

Operating system managed by rex

OpenBSD 7.8