Re: [rhelv5-list] crontab jobs not running

[David D <mystupidquestion gmail com>]

I checked,  none of the accounts have expired, and their shells are
correct.  I think its safe to rule out expired accounts,  root's cron
jobs are failing to execute too.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Procaccini, Tony J. <tjp techma com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Check the user(s) you are running the crons as dont have either expired login or incorrect shell also.
>
> Tony
>
>
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