This is an odd one... I have several FC1 based servers which are making use of nss_ldap and pam_ldap for user logins and user information. Everything works great except mysteriously some cron jobs don't seem to run and none will email their output to root... UNTIL .. I disable LDAP.
After tinkering with this some (lots of trial and error) the cron emails work perfectly until "ldap" is added to the "groups" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
passwd, shadow and netgroups can all have "ldap" prsent and cron will work just fine, but as soon as you add ldap to the groups line, no more cron emails go out.
If I start up cron without "ldap" in the groups line it works fine and I can then add ldap to groups so I get my groups info. As long as I don't restart crond it will continue working... this is the state I'm in right now, but obviously I want to get it working 100% the way it should be.
The jobs in /etc/crontab are running as root, and I see whenever they run that a request is made to my LDAP server looking for a user and group of root. Obviously I don't have a root user defined on my LDAP server, but could this be the cause of the problem?
Anyone seen this sort of thing before?
Thanks, Ray
Is there anything in the logs ? Is nscd running ?
I have :
services: files ldap netgroup: files ldap protocols: files ldap automount: files ldap shadow: files ldap
I had trouble with cron and ldap, in that the cron jobs were not running . We fixed it by removing caching of the passwd in nscd.conf. But this does not seem to be the same problem as you.
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