[Freeipa-users] odd cron behaviour

Sigbjorn Lie sigbjorn at nixtra.com
Fri Jun 15 15:21:46 UTC 2012


On 06/15/2012 04:24 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 15:19 +0200, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've seen cron jobs on some of our machines not being run after they we're migrated to IPA. The
>> machines in question has not been restarted after they we're migrated from NIS to IPA.
>>
>> These are RHEL 6 machines. The users that has the crontab that's not run, was in NIS, and the same
>> account having the same UID/GID exists in IPA. Cron jobs for local accounts run as they did before
>> migrating to IPA.
>>
>> Jun 15 13:53:01 hostname crond[1810]: (username) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
>>
>> Restarting the cron daemon solves the issue, and the cron jobs immediately starts running again.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this issue?
>
> Running daemons cannot pick up changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf. They have
> to be restarted. This is a long-standing bug in glibc (well, the glibc
> upstream doesn't consider it a bug, but their users do).
Ok, thank you for the explanation.


Rgds,
Siggi




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