cron weirdity

[snorky]

What am I doing wrong?

I'm logged on as admin, one pay grade below God (who wishes she were as powerful as root). I want to run, under my login, a script every Monday @ 04:00. The script is in my home directory, I own it, and the permissions are wide open (777). I own all of the directories and files used by the script, and as above, the permissions are all 777.

in bash, I type crontab -e
bash returns "no crontab for admin - using an empty one"
then bash opens crontab

in crontab, I type
esc
i
cron returns " --- Insert --- "
I enter
0 4 * * 1 /home/.users/112/admin/scripts/backall
esc
:w
crontab returns "crontab.10673" 1L, 49C written
I enter :wq
crontab closes
bash returns "no changes made to crontab"

In bash, I type crontab -l ... and my crontab entry isn't there

What am I missing here?

I was able to set up the cron job using webmin, but as we all know, webmin is for wimps. Real men use CLI.

[yancek]

I'm not sure I'm understanding your post correctly. When you type 'crontab -e' in a terminal and crontab opens, do you type 'esc' in the terminal? No reason for that. Just type i to insert, make your changes, when you have completed the changes, hit the ESC key to go to command mode and type ':wq' (w/o quotes), hit Enter key.

[Ziplock]

Hi there,

Try touching /etc/crontab and restarting cron

touch /etc/crontab
service cron restart

Then edit your crontab again. I got this from here:

crontab: no changes made to crontab [Archive] - FedoraForum.org