Re: [rhelv5-list] crontab jobs not running

[Barry Brimer <lists brimer org>]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am 16.07.2011 21:05, schrieb David D:
> > Hello,
> >      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
>
> Did someone play with /etc/security/access.conf or is that still default?
>
> rpm -V pam
>
> > Any insight is appreciated!  Thank you for your assistance.

What happens if you run the command without cron?