Steve Lee wrote:
> i don't have /etc/cron.allow or /etc/cron.deny > so all users will be able to run cron. > > What happened differently is that i have > setup all user accounts to auth through an > LDAP database. Maybe this may be the problem. > I'm not sure if NIS has this problem also. > Cron may not understand LDAP or even the PAM pluggable authentication modules. A quick "ldd `which crond`" doesn't show any dependency. You could find out by starting crond by hand under the control of strace, and find out what data it is looking for when the crontabs indicate that it is time to run a job... > if restart cron. it will run the first job that > it finds at the right time and stop there after. That's strange. Was the first job for root, and the other jobs for another username that should come from LDAP? Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
