I've never had my password expire, but... looking at the scripts in cron.hourly (normal system scripts), I see they are all chmod 755, which means any user should be able to read & execute, so root password expiration shouldn't make cron not be able to run them (don't know how that would be linked, anyway, as all system files are owned by root & if this was the case, then you'd think that nothing would work).
-Tom
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I had a direct experience with this... You can test it: force passwd
expiration with command "passwd -f root " and then setup a test root
cron. It will not execute. You will see an error entry in /var/cron/log .
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Why would root password affect this? Seems more likely that the setup
file in cron.d got somehow mangled...
-Tom
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Perhaps root password expired.
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Hello,
I have a Redhat 9 machine and suddently, for unknown reason, the daily
cron
job in /etc/cron.daily just stopped working. The users cron job are still
being run fine, and crond service is running. It's just the scripts
in /etc/cron.daily is never run again, ie. logwatch is stopped sending me
email, logrotate stopped rotating logs, etc.
I've poked around the server but haven't found anything obvious. Any help,
suggestions ?
Thanks in advance.
RDB
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