topic cron not working in Operating System - Linux

cron not working

Prasanth V Aravind — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:45:00 GMT

In one of linux machine cron is not workig.

1. I have checked crond status
2. restarted cron
3. created cron.allow
4. created one empty cron.deny
5. created cron entries for root & not root users
6. deleted crontabs all users. & put only one entry in root crontab.
7. chceked cronlog & syslog.

Still the cron is not working properly.
in message i can see " Nov 3 15:44:01 CollPrAppSr1 crond[4282]: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required. "
Any Idea ?

OS:- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)

Regards
Prasanth

Re: cron not working

Jeeshan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:58:28 GMT

Wrong forum to submit your question.

You are submitting your cronjob as a root and root's password has expired ,so crond is not able to authenticate root.
If you want to run your cronjob,either change/disable password expiration for root or submit your cronjob through someother user whose password will never expire.

Re: cron not working

SKR_1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:07:23 GMT

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=612562

http://lists.beasts.org/pipermail/tpop3d-discuss/2004-May/002869.html

Please check it, might help you.

Thanks

SKR