crontab: no changes made to crontab

[Bone]

Can someone tell me if they have run into this problem before? I am trying to create a cron job, to no avail. Anytime I go to create the job (as root) I type crontab -e, put the commands in however when it is time to save I save what I believe should be successful. When I type the command crontab -l, it says no crontab for root.

Also after saving the crontab (:wq), I get the following message, "crontab: no changes made to crontab" without the quotes. I have restarted the cron daemon to no avail.

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mB.

[Chosen Reject]

I had the same problem. I had to use crontab -u username -e and it finally worked.

[Bone]

I tried that however it did not work. I found a solution though, I manually went into the /var/spool/cron/ and manually created a cron file. I can't edit it with crontab however, but at this point I don't care. It works!

mB.