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> One good thing about your problem is it reminded me I'd forgotten to MFC
> the anti foot shooting measure I added a while back which causes crontab
> to refuse to load /etc/crontab as a user crontab.  It doesn't try very
> hard, but it does prevent the most common error.
>
> -- Brooks
>
Which is what happened here. :) It never ceases to amaze me how rich a
world FreeBSD is, and there's always more to learn. Many tanks of beer
to all who added suggestions. The root crontab was indeed saved by my
actions as /var/cron/tabs/root, and it was that which was complaining
vociferously.