topic Re: cron not working in Operating System - Linux

cron not working

TJ Toedebusch — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:17:06 GMT

I am getting the following in the /var/log/cron file and none of my root cron jobs are running:

May 5 16:05:01 pldh016 crond[27623]: User account has expired
May 5 16:05:01 pldh016 crond[27625]: User account has expired
May 5 16:05:01 pldh016 crond[27634]: User account has expired
May 5 16:05:01 pldh016 crond[27628]: User account has expired
May 5 16:05:01 pldh016 crond[27621]: User account has expired
May 5 16:05:01 pldh016 crond[27630]: User account has expired

I have tried the chage on root to no avail. Any other ideas?

Re: cron not working

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:28:17 GMT

What command did you use?

Try manually removing the expire date from /etc/shadow

Did you restart the cron service?

Other cron jobs (for other users) run?

Re: cron not working

TJ Toedebusch — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:37:34 GMT

I have tried manually removing the expire in /etc/shadow and yes, cron has been restarted.

It appears, no users cron is running.

Re: cron not working

Vipulinux — Fri, 05 May 2006 18:40:15 GMT

Hi

Check ur entries in cron.allow and cron.deny

Cheers
Vipul

Re: cron not working

TJ Toedebusch — Fri, 05 May 2006 18:43:29 GMT

yep, only have a cron.deny and there is only one user in there...

Re: cron not working

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 06 May 2006 15:43:21 GMT

Seems to be a serious problem.

If the user account expires cron jobs don't work.

I've always had a policy of accounts with cron being system type accounts like oracle or application owners. I then set those accounts not to expire.

It kind of makes sense from the security standpoint but thats just an opinion.

I think one of the prior posts provided you a solution which by ITRC etttiquette standards means you should award points of 8 or above.

SEP

Re: cron not working

TJ Toedebusch — Sun, 07 May 2006 08:11:08 GMT

a solution? Nothing anyone has posted has "fixed" my problem. Am I missing something here?
I have no problem awarding points, but I normally don't do that until my problem is fixed, then I base my points on how much each post has helped me come to that resolution.

Re: cron not working

dirk dierickx — Mon, 08 May 2006 04:13:38 GMT

well, yeah, the solution is to unexpire the user. check with 'chage -l pldh016', you should have no entries with '-1'.