On 2014-02-25, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> 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.
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