> On May 16, 2022, at 5:02 AM, Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote: > > You wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> > > I do now :-). But on the other 9.2 installation I've done so far cron > runs normally without a /etc/pam.d/croncl, and I wonder why.. Are some compiled with USE_PAM and others not? christos
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