Re: cron error

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20220514162133.A0B89B36083%viking.prd.co.uk@localhost>,
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>I find my /var/log/messages has this message one a regular basis:
>
>cron: in pam_vprompt(): no conversation function
>
> and correspondingly in /var/log/cron:
>
>cron[964]: (CRON) pam_authenticate failed (System error)
>
>regular cron jobs don't run.
>
>Is this a case of just restarting cron, or is something more sinister
>going on?

Do you have /etc/pam.d/cron installed?

christos