Bug 146964
| Summary: | crond ORPHAN (no passwd entry) on NIS+ system | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Paul Pluzhnikov <paul> |
| Component: | crontabs | Assignee: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | benl |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia32e | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | vixie-cron-4.1-3_EL3 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-02-04 15:49:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 170445 | ||
This problem is fixed in the latest version of CRON for RHEL-3, vixie-cron-4.1-3_EL3, which is currently undergoing QA testing and which should be in RHEL-3-U5 . Meanwhile, you can download it from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/cron/RHEL-3 Please try this version - it should fix the problem - and let me know. Yes, the vixie-cron-4.1-3_EL3 package fixes this. Thanks. This bug is fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-8_EL3, available from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/cron/RHEL-3 and should be considered for inclusion in RHEL-3-U7 . |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Description of problem: On a system configured to use NIS+, I can login (as user devtest) and do 'crontab -e' to set up a cron job. Crond however refuses to run this job: Feb 2 16:40:07 dev1 crontab[24872]: (devtest) BEGIN EDIT (devtest) Feb 2 16:40:19 dev1 crontab[24872]: (devtest) REPLACE (devtest) Feb 2 16:40:19 dev1 crontab[24872]: (devtest) END EDIT (devtest) Feb 2 16:41:00 dev1 crond[1371]: (devtest) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vixie-cron-3.0.1-75.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up the system with NIS 2. Login as user without local /etc/passwd entry 3. Use 'crontab -e' to set a cron job 4. Observe that the job does not run Actual Results: crond does not run scheduled jobs. Expected Results: crond should run jobs for users for which getpwnam() returns a valid entry. Additional info: