Re: cron error

[email protected] (Steve Blinkhorn) Mon, 16 May 2022 09:02:47 +0000 (UTC)

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

You wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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..


-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]>