By arijitaich
I tried the following codes:
- crontab -e: Pressing enter shows the following: no crontab for root - using an empty one 888
Post this we cannot do anything. We cannot save anything.
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One thing is crontab -e and /etc/crontab are different files, it’s creating a dummy file when you run -e. I would open up the cron file and edit it manually to see if that works.
You might also find this debugging info helpful. http://serverfault.com/questions/449651/why-is-my-crontab-not-working-and-how-can-i-troubleshoot-it
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