cron 3.0pl1-119, recently uploaded to Debian unstable, contains a patch that forces a rescan of ORPHANed crontabs. Credit for the fix goes to Fedora cronie, from where it was taken.
I'll try to get this sync'ed over the weekend, together with some other bugfixes for cron in Ubuntu. -- 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
