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Entries from September 2008

Cron errors - cron’s not running etc.. (CentOS 5.2)

September 27th, 2008 11:26 pm · No Comments

Had these errors recently on the exodus and genesis servers - been a lot of recent work on these…
pam_access(crond:account): access denied for user `someuser’ from `cron’
crond[9985]: CRON (someuser) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
crond[9985]: CRON (someuser) ERROR: cannot set security context

This link solved it:
http://hostechs.com/2008/07/cron-error-failed-to-open-pam-security-session/
* /etc/cron.allow - add users to this file
* /etc/security/access.conf - [...]

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Tags: Linux