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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On 2014-02-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron |
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> > about PAM authentication errors: |
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> > Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication |
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> failure) |
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> > Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with |
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> PAM (Authentication failure) |
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> Doh! That's not vixie-cron, that's chronie. |
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> > Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at |
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> $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out) |
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> That's vixie-cron, and it's perfectly happy. |
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> I initially installed chronie (since that's what's shown in the |
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> handbook). When I couldn't get it working, I removed it and emerged |
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> vixie-cron (which I've never had any trouble with). |
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> I forgot to stop chronie before I uninstalled it. |
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> -- |
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> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I think my career |
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> at is ruined! |
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> gmail.com |
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Ah. I use vixie-cron on servers and fcron on desktop. Fcron because it |
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considers timing according to how much time the system was on while not |
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accounting shutdowns. So PC doesn't miss cron jobs. |
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