Re: cron error
Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> Mon, 16 May 2022 09:42:44 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2022-05-16 9:17 am, [email protected] wrote: > You wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > 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 >> > > Both from the same distribution sets, so I didn't compile any of it. Then I don't know... christos -- christos