cron error

[email protected] (Steve Blinkhorn) Sat, 14 May 2022 16:21:33 +0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
Organization	Psychometric Research & Development Ltd.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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?

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]>