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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