Re: cron error

Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> Mon, 16 May 2022 06:45:01 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
Message-ID	<[email protected]>


> On May 16, 2022, at 5:02 AM, Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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..

Are some compiled with USE_PAM and others not?

christos

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