RE: cron.daily stopped working

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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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Reuben D. Budiardja 
Dept. Physics and Astronomy 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 

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