Your message dated Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:47:21 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#514230: invalid user in /etc/crontab prevents other
jobs from being executed
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regarding invalid user in /etc/crontab prevents other jobs from being executed
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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
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Justin T Pryzby schrieb:
Debian patched cron to stop processing tab files after the first
error.
Thanks for the quick response, that explains it, yes. Unfortunately the
behaviour was so unexpected I couldn't imagine this to be intentional...
Warnings do go to syslog, you might use logcheck or something to
notice that more readily. It would proably be reasonable for cron to
send a mail, too.
You're probably right. After your hint I noticed that sysklogd was
configured (not by me) to silently drop messages from cron instead of
writing them to syslog...
I guess this bug can be closed, sorry for the trouble.
Best regards,
David Gubler, Doodle AG
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