Re: cron error

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

You wrote:
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> > On May 16, 2022, at 5:02 AM, Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
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> > You wrote:
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> >> 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:
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> >>> cron: in pam_vprompt(): no conversation function
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> >>> and correspondingly in /var/log/cron:
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> >>> cron[964]: (CRON) pam_authenticate failed (System error)
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> >>> regular cron jobs don't run.
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> >>> Is this a case of just restarting cron, or is something more sinister
> >>> going on?
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> >> Do you have /etc/pam.d/cron installed?
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> >> christos
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> > 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..
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> Are some compiled with USE_PAM and others not?
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> christos
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Both from the same distribution sets, so I didn't compile any of it.

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>