cron still not working - even after rerunning cron config

Mike Brown brown@mrvideo.vidiot.com
Fri Dec 16 21:55:00 GMT 2011


On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:21:45PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Yes, it is in /var/cron/tabs/

Found it.  I went looking for "tabs" and found it.

> Problems like this have been reported when a user xxxx is both a local user
> and a domain user (2 xxxx entries in /etc/passwd).
> Cron with suid to the 1st matching passwd entry 

I'm only in the passwd file once:

SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-SATELLITE\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1957994488-1960408961-725345543-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
ASPNET:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:ASP.NET Machine Account,U-SATELLITE\ASPNET,S-1-5-21-1957994488-1960408961-725345543-1004:/home/ASPNET:/bin/bash
Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-SATELLITE\Guest,S-1-5-21-1957994488-1960408961-725345543-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Remote Desktop Help Assistant Account,U-SATELLITE\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-1957994488-1960408961-725345543-1000:/home/HelpAssistant:/bin/bash
SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US,U-SATELLITE\SUPPORT_388945a0,S-1-5-21-1957994488-1960408961-725345543-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
Vidiot:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-SATELLITE\Vidiot,S-1-5-21-1957994488-1960408961-725345543-1003:/home/Vidiot:/bin/zsh
sshd:unused:1005:513:sshd privsep,U-SATELLITE\sshd,S-1-5-21-1343024091-507921405-839522115-1005:/var/empty:/bin/false

So, I saved a copy of my crontab with -l.  I then did a -r.
The .../tabs/Vidiot was then removed,  I then did a -e and read in the contents
of the saved file and reset the entry to touch the file in /tmp.

Same damn error.  It isn't the wrong file owner.  It belongs to Vidiot:None and
is 644.

So, in desperation, I reinstalled again, this time setting it to run as me.
I do not get the wrong file owner error anymore.  This time it says RELOAD
(tabs/Vidiot), yet it STILL refuses to run the entry, any entry.  I set one
of the jobs I normally do and it wouldn't start it.

Why is 1.7 having so much trouble with this when 1.5 didn't?

MB
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