I've recently installed Woody on a couple of systems (one new-ish laptop, another dinosaur desktop) and upgraded a few things to testing/unstable, and noticed that cron doesn't work. In auth.log I see:
Aug 29 17:10:01 joehill cron(pam_unix)[3550]: session opened for user news by (uid=0) Aug 29 17:10:01 joehill CRON[3550]: Permission denied Aug 29 17:23:01 joehill cron(pam_unix)[3567]: session opened for user mail by (uid=0) Aug 29 17:23:01 joehill CRON[3567]: Permission denied etc.. No individual cron jobs work either (i.e., set up with crontab -e). I've checked the permissions on all the files in the cron package and they are identical to the permissions on a working system. I've also eliminated cron.allow and cron.deny, and also created cron.allow with the relevant user names in it. I've reinstalled cron with apt-get. I also have installed at and anacron, but I don't think they make any difference to cron. I've looked through everything in /var/log for clues, but nothing stands out. I've also searched the web for this problem and was only able to find one posting by someone with a similar problem, but there were no responses. I'm using cron v3.0pl1-72. Can anyone suggest how I might go about troubleshooting this? I'm rather stuck for options to explore. Thanks for any advice-- --- Adam Kessel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
