Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-100 Severity: normal We had an invalid line in our /etc/crontab; it was referring to a user account that did not exist any more (removed from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, I checked). This prevented other entries in /etc/crontab from being executed. However, it seems that jobs in /etc/cron.d/ were working fine.
I could not find any indication of this problem in syslog, messages or daemon.log, however auth.log showed that cron did not try to execute the other jobs in /etc/crontab. After commenting the invalid line cron works fine again. Expected behaviour: Ignore invalid line and print error message somewhere sensible. Best regards, David Gubler, Doodle AG -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii postfix [mail-transport-ag 2.3.8-2+etch1 A high-performance mail transport -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
