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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

crond isn't working anymore...

I get the following in the log..:

May  5 17:01:01 pennywise /usr/sbin/crond[31232]: (root) PAM ERROR (Module is unknown)
May  5 17:01:01 pennywise /usr/sbin/crond[31232]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Module is unknown)

What am I missing?

Regards,

BTJ

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Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: crond isn't working anymore...

Is your system up to date (more specifically the "pam" package)?

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jasonwryan

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Re: crond isn't working anymore...

Reboot...

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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

Re: crond isn't working anymore...

Yes, the system is up to date... Tried reinstalling and restarting cron and then it worked... But not sure if there is a problem when starting crond at boot or if it was something else...
Will try a reboot tonight and see if crond is still working...

BTJ

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Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"

tdreyer1

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From: US

Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 13

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Re: crond isn't working anymore...

I was also having this issue, and a quick restart of the cron daemon fixed it.

rc.d restart crond

eahiv

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Registered: 2015-08-24

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Re: crond isn't working anymore...

I had the same problem after updating many things. Restarting crond fixed it.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: crond isn't working anymore...

Please do not "necrobump" old threads.

Closed.

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