crontab jobs not running
Sanjay Chakraborty
sanjaychakrab at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 22:47:43 UTC 2011
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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Regards.
Sanjay Chakraborty
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