stories about actually using FC3t1 on a regular basis?

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Mon Aug 9 21:30:24 UTC 2004


Hmm, that sounds a lot like Mandatory Access Lists are enabled.
Maybe there is something wrong with the selinux extensions.
Try disabling selinux.

Harry Putnam wrote:

>"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> writes:
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>>does it sound like i'd have any grief?  i don't mind the inevitable 
>>annoyances i'd have to work around, just the real devastating ones.
>>thanks.
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>Not sure if this is in anyway a general problem. I've gotten no
>answers to my posts and only see a few cron related postings.
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>If you depend on cron for much it could be pretty rough to lose it.
>My crond gets knocked off every so often.  I'm running FC3t1 with most
>updates (not the narly recent ones like curl and a few others). On my
>main desktop machine.  But this is only a one user non-serious
>personal desktop.
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>I haven't been able to find what is killing crond, but when I notice
>mail stop coming or a few other things happening it has turned out to
>be a killed of crond.
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>The only diagnostics I can offer is the message produced by:
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>  service crond status
>  crond dead but pid file exists
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>And that following the recent vixie-cron update install.  Suddenly no
>users (even root) could write to crontab -e.
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>I had to create /etc/cron.allow and add them.  Even root, although the
>crontab man page says root will be able to write without that.
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