crontab jobs not running

[hike]

did you stop and restart crond?

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:51 PM, David D <mystupidquestion at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked /etc/shadow, none of the accounts trying to run cron jobs
> are disabled.  Also,  root's crontab's defined jobs are not running,
> so I do not think the problem is an expired account.
>
> David
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Sanjay Chakraborty
> <sanjaychakrab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Most probably account expired.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, David D <mystupidquestion at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Our Oracle environment is running on a cluster of redhat boxes.  Each
> >> node is running Redhat 5, x86_64. We are having a problem with our
> >> crontab tasks.  No job seems to be running.  Even root’s crontab jobs
> >> fail to execute.  When I look at /var/log/cron the following lines are
> >> listed over and over:
> >>
> >>     Jul 16 13:01:01 server1 crond[1632]: Bad item passed to pam_*_item()
> >>     Jul 16 13:01:01 server1 crond[1632]: CRON (root) ERROR: failed to
> >> open PAM security session: Success
> >>     Jul 16 13:01:01 server1 crond[1632]: CRON (root) ERROR: cannot
> >> set security context
> >>
> >> I can’t seem to isolate this issue.   Some other interesting points
> >> that may be related:
> >>
> >> *  SE Linux is disabled
> >> *  No cron.allow file exists.
> >> *  The cron.deny file is empty
> >> *  The installed cron packages are:
> >>
> >>     anacron.x86_64                            2.3-45.0.1.el5
> >>     crontabs.noarch                           1.10-8
> >>     vixie-cron.x86_64                         4:4.1-77.el5_4.1
> >>
> >> *  The installed pam packages are:
> >>
> >>     pam.i386                                  0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2
> >>      installed
> >>     pam.x86_64                                0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_ccreds.i386                           3-5
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_ccreds.x86_64                         3-5
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_krb5.i386                             2.2.14-18.el5
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_krb5.x86_64                           2.2.14-18.el5
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_passwdqc.i386                         1.0.2-1.2.2
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_passwdqc.x86_64                       1.0.2-1.2.2
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_pkcs11.i386                           0.5.3-23
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_pkcs11.x86_64                         0.5.3-23
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_smb.i386                              1.1.7-7.2.1
> >>      installed
> >>     pam_smb.x86_64                            1.1.7-7.2.1
> >>      installed
> >>
> >> *  The contents of /etc/pam.d/cron is:
> >>     #
> >>     # The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon
> >>     #
> >>     #
> >>
> >>     auth       sufficient pam_env.so
> >>    auth       required   pam_rootok.so
> >>    auth       include    system-auth
> >>    account    required   pam_access.so
> >>    account    include    system-auth
> >>    session    required   pam_loginuid.so
> >>    session    include    system-auth
> >>    /etc/pam.d/crond (END)
> >>
> >> *  Around the time cron stopped working the following entries started
> >> appearing in /var/log/secure:
> >>     Jul  6 20:40:01 dbtc01 crond[15916]: pam_env(crond:setcred):
> >> pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; . $AW_HOME/site/sosite
> >>     Jul  6 20:40:01 dbtc01 crond[15916]: pam_env(crond:setcred):
> >> pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; . $AW_HOME/site/sosite
> >>
> >> Any insight is appreciated!  Thank you for your assistance.
> >>
> >> David
> >>
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> >
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> > Sanjay Chakraborty
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