Help -- crond dying on LDAP-bound hosts!

[Victor Danilchenko]

	Oh yeah, i forgot to add... I compiled vixie-cron from FC1 and
FC2 SRPMs, but nothing changed -- crond still dies.

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Victor Danilchenko wrote:

>	Hi,
>
>	I am overseeing an LDAP rollout at the office, and we ran into a
>peculiar problem: RHL 9 systems, when bound to LDAP, start experincing
>crond death. Each time anyone edits their crontab, the next cron polling
>(at minuite boundary) causes crond to die. the following message is
>logged:
>
>Apr 12 16:27:00 loki crond[25732]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
>Apr 12 16:27:00 loki crond[25732]: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s)
>
>	and then crond just dies, without any notice. The problem is
>also described in Bugzilla, in the somewhat unrelated bug #110563 at
>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=110563 , but
>no solution is offered.
>
>	Any ideas, anyone? Besides filing a bug report -- I will do that
>next.
>
>

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