http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926961 Bug ID: 926961 Summary: cron ignores cron jobs of user that don't exist at boot time Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: 13.2 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: bjacke@samba.org QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Apr 8 05:43:01 pell /usr/sbin/cron[1461]: (bjacke) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) when sssd is not started before cron then no cron jobs of those users will be started because cron keeps the status of those user as "ORPHAN". This is generally an issue with nsswitch modules of sssd, ldap, winbind etc. Enforcing the boot order of some services might help for some of those but I think it is generally broken if cron remembers the status of "ORPHAN (no passwd entry)" for a long time. Imagine you have an LDAP server which might not be reachable at boot time, those LDAP users would have their cron jobs be disabled until cron is restarted or until the crontab files is being touched so that cron is triggered to reload it. cron should not discard cron jobs of temporary ORPHANed users but check after some minutes if those users are still ORPHANed and then enale the cron jobs of those users. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.