Re: cron error

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

You wrote:
> 
> In article <20220514162133.A0B89B36083%viking.prd.co.uk@localhost>,
> Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> >I find my /var/log/messages has this message one a regular basis:
> >
> >cron: in pam_vprompt(): no conversation function
> >
> > and correspondingly in /var/log/cron:
> >
> >cron[964]: (CRON) pam_authenticate failed (System error)
> >
> >regular cron jobs don't run.
> >
> >Is this a case of just restarting cron, or is something more sinister
> >going on?
> 
> Do you have /etc/pam.d/cron installed?
> 
> christos
> 
> 

I do now :-).  But on the other 9.2 installation I've done so far cron
runs normally without a /etc/pam.d/croncl, and I wonder why..


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