On 06/08/2011 12:30 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > In the longer term, obviously it would be great for cron better > integrate with network-based user databases, but it would be nice to > hear from some Ubuntu developers whether that sort of change is likely > to get backported to Lucid?
This is the key point. I talked to an Ubuntu Dev for the 11.04 release, but we didn't make it in time and upstart was also missing a feature we needed to emulate the LSB "Should-Start" header (I'm grossly simplifying here). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27520 Title: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing "ORPHAN" message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/27520/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
