Re: cron error

Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> Mon, 16 May 2022 09:42:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2022-05-16 9:17 am, [email protected] wrote:
> You wrote:
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>> > On May 16, 2022, at 5:02 AM, Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > You wrote:
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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:
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>> >>> cron: in pam_vprompt(): no conversation function
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>> >>> and correspondingly in /var/log/cron:
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>> >>> cron[964]: (CRON) pam_authenticate failed (System error)
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>> >>> regular cron jobs don't run.
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>> >>> Is this a case of just restarting cron, or is something more sinister
>> >>> going on?
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>> >> Do you have /etc/pam.d/cron installed?
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>> >> christos
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>> > 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..
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>> Are some compiled with USE_PAM and others not?
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>> christos
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> Both from the same distribution sets, so I didn't compile any of it.

Then I don't know...

christos

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christos