RE: cron.daily stopped working

Alex.Nachman_at_ny.frb.org
Date: 04/19/05

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    I had a direct experience with this... You can test it: force passwd
    expiration with command "passwd -f root " and then setup a test root
    cron. It will not execute. You will see an error entry in /var/cron/log .

    "Burke, Thomas G." <tg.burke@ngc.com>
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    Why would root password affect this? Seems more likely that the setup
    file in cron.d got somehow mangled...
     
        -Tom

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    Perhaps root password expired.

    "Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu>
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    Hello,
    I have a Redhat 9 machine and suddently, for unknown reason, the daily
    cron
    job in /etc/cron.daily just stopped working. The users cron job are still
    being run fine, and crond service is running. It's just the scripts
    in /etc/cron.daily is never run again, ie. logwatch is stopped sending me
    email, logrotate stopped rotating logs, etc.

    I've poked around the server but haven't found anything obvious. Any help,

    suggestions ?

    Thanks in advance.
    RDB 

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 
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