> On May 16, 2022, at 5:02 AM, Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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..
Are some compiled with USE_PAM and others not?
christos