On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2014-02-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron > > about PAM authentication errors: > > > > Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication > failure) > > Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with > PAM (Authentication failure) > > Doh! That's not vixie-cron, that's chronie. > > > Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at > $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out) > > That's vixie-cron, and it's perfectly happy. > > I initially installed chronie (since that's what's shown in the > handbook). When I couldn't get it working, I removed it and emerged > vixie-cron (which I've never had any trouble with). > > I forgot to stop chronie before I uninstalled it. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I think my career > at is ruined! > gmail.com > > > Ah. I use vixie-cron on servers and fcron on desktop. Fcron because it considers timing according to how much time the system was on while not accounting shutdowns. So PC doesn't miss cron jobs.
