Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-100 Followup-For: Bug #206948
Issues with Cron and apparently PAM->LDAP seem to be still occuring in recent packages. We had a cluster of machines apparently have cron stop launching scripts silently, although I believe the daemon itself was still running. The closest thing I could track it down to was this issues here, although I am still digging deeper. Although this has apparently been pegged as "PAM or LDAP needs to address this", is there any chance of cron itself handling the signal or lack therof gracefully and not segfaulting? And maybe sending a log message to track? Failing that, should Debian patch one package or another despite ldap not wanting to handle signals in the interest of Debian packages working cohesively? I'd imagine that just a few people who use LDAP also use CRON. This is a fairly old bug, so I'm not sure of the progress if any on it, or if it was going to be left open indefinitely in the hopes that one of the other packages would come around. Should I be opening this bug against another package? I didn't because cron is the program that is dying, but I will if needed. If you need any particular debugging output or whatever that you don't already have, let me know. This has caused some fairly serious headaches for myself and others until we realized what was going on, and it would be nice to prevent it from happening to others in the future. Also, you may want to mark 260789 and possibly 332761 as duplicates of this bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.104 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.23.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4 4.67-7 meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.67-7 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
