Re: Intermittent Cron Errors

Compiled and ran -- here's the output: $>/tmp/testcron.exe name orderworker uid 11130 gid 10513 0 256 512 768 1024 1280 1536 1792 2048 2304 2560 I killed it at this point. No initgroups() or setuid() failures in 2500 tries. Let me know your thoughts. Rajiv -- Problem reports: http://

Re: Intermittent Cron Errors

Pierre, Thanks for your reply. Yes, both the job and service are running under the same account (orderworker). I was looking into this a bit more, and found that we are getting the following event in our security event log at the exact time of the cron "can't switch user context" error. E

Intermittent Cron Errors

Hi, We are seeing intermittent cron errors on some of our servers. We run about a couple of hundred jobs on these servers, and about 5% of them fail with the error "can't switch user context"). We enabled verbose logging, and in /var/log/cron.log see messages that say "cannot set uid for ". Wh