I am using vixie-cron-3.0.1-74, the stock cron daemon from RedHat 9 and
sync_users-oscar-1.5-5, the version of sync_user with Oscar 3.0.  The
problem I get is that sync_user will not sync accounts across the cluster.
sync_user errors out with a complaint about "USER" environment variable
not set.  You can see the error if you pipe the output of sync_user to a
file intead of /dev/null.

Randy

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jason Brechin wrote:

> I have not seen this problem using the cron supplied with RedHat 8.0 or
> 9.  What errors are you getting when the USER variable isn't set?  What
> version of sync_users are you using?
>
> Jason
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 09:18, Randy Philipp wrote:
> > I have run into the problem that vixie-cron-3.0.1-74 on RedHat 9 is not
> > setting USER environment variable when running the sync_user cron job.
> > This breaks sync_user, and it will not work.  It works fine if you run it
> > by hand.  Has anyone else run into this problem on RedHat 9?
> >
> > The current fix I have put in place it modify sync_user to use the
> > following cron entry:
> >
> > */15 * * * * root USER=$LOGNAME /opt/opium/bin/sync_users >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > In sync_user, be sure to change the definition of $cronline to the
> > following:
> >
> >   $cronline = "*/$crondelay * * * * root USER=\$LOGNAME /opt/opium/bin/sync_users 
> > >/dev/null 2>&1\n";
> >
> > This is line 120 of sync_user.
> >
> > Hope someone finds this useful.
> >
> > Randy
> >
> >
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