Why does crontab fail with error "crontab: no changes made to crontab"?

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Issue

  • Not able to set cron jobs.
[red@dhcp233-57 ~]$ crontab -e
crontab: no changes made to crontab

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • vixie-cron

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