Re: cron error

[email protected] (Christos Zoulas) Sat, 14 May 2022 20:35:34 -0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
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In article <[email protected]>,
Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> 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