Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146964
crond ORPHAN (no passwd entry) on NIS+ system
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:06 EST
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:
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 .