CRON error after upgrading to sp4

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
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I have manually upgraded the VM OS from SUSE 12 sp2 sap to SUSE 12 sp4 sap recently.
there are around 1700 cron jobs configured for a Linux user which was set by SAP.
before the upgrade, all cron jobs were running fine for this user but after the upgrade these cron jobs not running.

Error: “cronfile”:585 too many garbage characters errors in crontab file, can’t install.

after troubleshooting, I found that the crontab is not allowing to add more than 1000 cron (lines) for a user.
How to increase this limit?

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@Shubham Hi and welcome to the Forum :slight_smile:
That’s a lot of cron jobs!! Sure it hasn’t be corrupted (^M’s perhaps) and needs dos2unix run over the file?

Can you show a small portion of the file?

I see it’s a know issue, can you log into SAP’s Knowledge Base?
https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2832854