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[man page] missing crontab -x description

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      Description of problem:

      crontab command line help indicates there is "-x" debug option. However, `man crontab` does not provide any reference/usage example to describe the -x option, and its usage (i.e. mask)

      1. crontab -h
        Usage:
        crontab [options] file
        crontab [options]
        crontab -n [hostname]

      Options:
      -u <user> define user
      -e edit user's crontab
      -l list user's crontab
      -r delete user's crontab
      -i prompt before deleting
      -n <host> set host in cluster to run users' crontabs
      -c get host in cluster to run users' crontabs
      -T <file> test a crontab file syntax
      -s selinux context
      -V print version and exit
      -x <mask> enable debugging <<<<<=====

      Default operation is replace, per 1003.2

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      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
      cronie-1.5.7-8.el9.x86_64

      Actual results:
      man page does not contain any description of "-x". User of crontab is unable to understand the usage of this option, or the expectation of <mask> value.

      Expected results:
      man page should contain usage example of "-x"

      Additional info:

              opohorel@redhat.com Ondrej Pohorelsky
              rhn-support-suwu Sunny Wu
              Ondrej Pohorelsky Ondrej Pohorelsky
              RHEL SST CS base utils QE Bot RHEL SST CS base utils QE Bot
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