Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1
Severity: important
cron needs to be started later then certain services providing non-local users.
The init file (/etc/init.d/cron) has this LSB line in it:
Should-Start: $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd
winbind
But the systemd service file (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service) has no
corresponding After= line.
When systemd is used, the service file gets precedence and the LSB init file is
ignored, thus cron may
be started before these services.
E.g. on my system, I have local users in a locally-running LDAP server (slapd).
When cron starts before slapd,
crontabs containing non-local users are ignored:
Oct 7 09:34:03 localhost cron[834]: Error: bad username; while reading
/etc/crontab
Oct 7 09:34:03 localhost cron[834]: (*system*) ERROR (Syntax error, this
crontab file will be ignored)
Fixed by adding "After=slapd.service" to the cron service file.
This is a regression when upgrading from wheezy (as it did not use systemd).
Other bug reports exist which are most likely caused by the same problem:
#767016 [i| | ] [cron] cron does start before sssd and therefore
authentication fails
#783665 [i| | ] [cron] cron does not execute some non-root cron.d jobs
when started before ypbind
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debianutils 4.4+b1
ii dpkg 1.17.25
ii init-system-helpers 1.22
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.1
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.3-1
Versions of packages cron suggests:
pn anacron <none>
pn checksecurity <none>
ii logrotate 3.8.7-1+b1
Versions of packages cron is related to:
ii libnss-ldap 265-3+b1
pn libnss-ldapd <none>
ii libpam-ldap 184-8.7+b1
pn libpam-mount <none>
pn nis <none>
pn nscd <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/crontab changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
