Everyone, thank you for you assistance, this issue has been resolved. References to non-existant variables were added to /etc/environment, and were causing the pam/cron errors. David On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, David D <mystupidquestion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Our Oracle environment is running on a cluster of redhat boxes. Each > node is running Redhat 5, x86_64. We are having a problem with our > crontab tasks. No job seems to be running. Even root’s crontab jobs > fail to execute. When I look at /var/log/cron the following lines are > listed over and over: > > Jul 16 13:01:01 server1 crond[1632]: Bad item passed to pam_*_item() > Jul 16 13:01:01 server1 crond[1632]: CRON (root) ERROR: failed to > open PAM security session: Success > Jul 16 13:01:01 server1 crond[1632]: CRON (root) ERROR: cannot > set security context > > I can’t seem to isolate this issue. Some other interesting points > that may be related: > > * SE Linux is disabled > * No cron.allow file exists. > * The cron.deny file is empty > * The installed cron packages are: > > anacron.x86_64 2.3-45.0.1.el5 > crontabs.noarch 1.10-8 > vixie-cron.x86_64 4:4.1-77.el5_4.1 > > * The installed pam packages are: > > pam.i386 0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2 > installed > pam.x86_64 0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2 > installed > pam_ccreds.i386 3-5 > installed > pam_ccreds.x86_64 3-5 > installed > pam_krb5.i386 2.2.14-18.el5 > installed > pam_krb5.x86_64 2.2.14-18.el5 > installed > pam_passwdqc.i386 1.0.2-1.2.2 > installed > pam_passwdqc.x86_64 1.0.2-1.2.2 > installed > pam_pkcs11.i386 0.5.3-23 > installed > pam_pkcs11.x86_64 0.5.3-23 > installed > pam_smb.i386 1.1.7-7.2.1 > installed > pam_smb.x86_64 1.1.7-7.2.1 > installed > > * The contents of /etc/pam.d/cron is: > # > # The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon > # > # > > auth sufficient pam_env.so > auth required pam_rootok.so > auth include system-auth > account required pam_access.so > account include system-auth > session required pam_loginuid.so > session include system-auth > /etc/pam.d/crond (END) > > * Around the time cron stopped working the following entries started > appearing in /var/log/secure: > Jul 6 20:40:01 dbtc01 crond[15916]: pam_env(crond:setcred): > pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; . $AW_HOME/site/sosite > Jul 6 20:40:01 dbtc01 crond[15916]: pam_env(crond:setcred): > pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; . $AW_HOME/site/sosite > > Any insight is appreciated! Thank you for your assistance. > > David > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
