Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 163181
Update Disables Cron Jobs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:09 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The following no longer run as scheduled since updating to vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC4.i386.rpm (July 12). 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 8-22 * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews 20 5,17 * * * rsync -avrt rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/4/i386 --exclude=debug/ --exclude=*i18* /var2/yum/Fedora/core/4/updates Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC4.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Not applicable. Actual Results: No applicable Expected Results: Not applicable Additional info: Log prints: Jul 13 15:25:01 dns crond[4055]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session Jul 13 15:25:01 dns crond(pam_unix)[4055]: session closed for user root
Very strange! This does not happen on my system. Were you upgrading from vixie-cron-4.1-33 ? vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC4 adds support for the new pam audit system with this line in /etc/pam.d/crond: ' account required pam_loginuid.so ' Does the problem persist if you comment out this line and restart cron ? You should have upgraded PAM to 0.79-9.1 and audit to 0.9.15-1.FC4. Does the problem persist with these PAM and audit versions and with the pam_loginuid line in /etc/pam.d/crond ?
I have pam-0.79-8. pam-0.79-9.1 only went to updates today - Jul 13 (vixie was updated yesterday). The pam update seems to fix the problem.
You should also ensure that you have audit*-0.9.15-1.FC4 . Closing this bug as it is fixed with current audit & pam releases - thanks!