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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 failure) |
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> Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with 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 $(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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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I think my career |
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at is ruined! |
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gmail.com |