Public bug reported: In oneiric, and as fasr as I can tell also in lucid, cron starts before nis in the boot sequence, and thus cron jobs of users with nis accounts are ignored. The problem is fixed if cron is manually restarted after boot is finished.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: cron 3.0pl1-116ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3 Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jun 23 15:45:23 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: cron UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2009-02-23 (850 days ago) ** Affects: cron (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity unity-2d -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801153 Title: Cron starts too early and does not work for user accounts when using NIS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/801153/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs