** Valid Audit ID? All I did was ad an F-Backup **

[Michael Gretton]

I added an fbackup job as root and now I get this msg sent to me every other minute? What gives? I haven't seen this on any of my machines before. I used sam to add the job so the problem isn't with syntax...

Cron: Your job did not contain a valid audit ID.
See your system administrator.

[Helen French]

Hi,

Check this out:

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=84c8a4ca08585085b1/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048391508

HTH,
Shiju

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

If this is a Trusted System - Check this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x6fd10bce6f33d6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

If not trusted see this one:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xc5f2f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

HTH,
Jeff

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Certainly there is auditing on so we can assume that the system is trusted.


A possible cause is then the .cronaids file. The message is sent if /usr/spool/cron/.cronaids/root
file is not found.

So
1)Check to make sure the file exists, double-check its content.

2)If not
. Run tsconvert -p
This will build a file with the data the system needs

3)Restart cron.
/sbin/init.d/cron stop
/sbin/init.d/cron start


Steve Steel

[Michael Gretton]

Okay:

Problem still exists. I have followed the suggestions here which look promising but i am missing something. First of all /usr/spool/cron/.cronaids is a directory not a file. I notice you all are refering to it as a file and so does hp. It is a directory on all of my HP boxes. Inside that directory are tiny files for users it appears who have cron access. A file for root was missing so I touched one and assigned it permissions. However, hp says "check the contents" okay....what should be in these files? All the other ones just have numbers. What do the numbers refer to? They are not the UID. I am at a loss...any more hints would help.

[Clemens van Everdingen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try creating a file:

/usr/spool/cron/.audid/root with ID 0

This in addition to the other file:

/usr/spool/cron/.cronaids/root

Leave the file empty and try again.

Clemens.