If cron ever orphans a crontab (typically due to a temporary NSS lookup failure, ie. NIS or LDAP servers unreachable) during startup or following a crontab edit, that crontab will never be reloaded until the crontab is edited again or cron is restarted. Cron logs the following. Oct 31 11:51:01 server.example.com crond[3585]: (root) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Oct 31 11:51:01 server.example.com
May 31 09:37:00 it1bsutl08 crond\[1855]: (tmp.12580) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) May 31 09:37:00 it1bsutl08 crond\[1855]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root) May 31 09:37:00 it1bsutl08 crond\[1855]: (tmp.12293) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) May 31 09:38:00 it1bsutl08 CROND\[5860]: (root) CMD Question: Users can configure cronjobs @reboot, but the cron environment is not ready for users at boot time. How can cron be forced to run only after the system is ready for users on Ubuntu? Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 21:56 Post subject: (crontabs) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) -- don't add user! Don't add a crontabs user. That will only confuse Vixie Cron into trying to read the directory /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ as if it were a crontab file (though probably nothing will happen). 202 dst=72.187.71.158 len=52 tos=0x00 prec=0x00 ttl=106 id=2777 df proto=tcp spt=62479 dpt=51413 window=8192 res=0x00 syn urgp Aug 13, 2007 · If you need cron to source (read) any file that your script will need you should do it from the script cron is calling. Setting paths, sourcing files, setting environment variables, etc. If the users account has a crontab but no usable shell in /etc/passwd then the cronjob will not run. Dec 12, 2009 · ORPHAN (no passwd entry) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) ----- Cron End ----- /var/log/cron: Dec 9 10:58:00 webserver crond[1120]: (tmp.1136) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Dec 9 10:58:00 webserver crond[1120]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root) Dec 9 10:58:00 webserver crond[1120]: (tmp.8970) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Dec 9 10:58:00 webserver crond[1120]: (tmp.12560
/etc/passwdにエントリが存在しない つまりユーザーが、ない（と思われる） http://open-groove.net/openldap/orphan-no-passwd-entry/
crond[3293]: (username) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Ordinarily this is a simple matter, there is no corresponding user, but I am using central authentication and the username does exist and is usable via the standard nsswitch mechanism, so all other programs work with it, pam, ssh etc.. Jul 22, 2004 · /var/spool/cron/ should have crons for valid users only..i.e only those crons are valid that are created for users with valid entry in /etc/passwd/ try removing invalid cron entries and restart cron daemon. Hi Thanks for your reply I have the following entries in /var/log/cron Sep 3 09:47:00 sun051 crond[971]: (tmp.9242) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Sep 3 09:47:00 sun051 crond[971]: (tmp.9491) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Sep 3 09:47:00 sun051 crond[971]: (tmp.9494) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Sep 3 09:47:00 sun051 crond[971]: (tmp.9632) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Sep 3 09:47:00 sun051 crond[971]: (tm
Change the NIS domain binding Actual results: NIS user cronjobs do not run and produce the following errors for the NIS users Oct 31 11:51:01 servername crond[####]: (username1) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Oct 31 11:51:01 servername crond[####]: (username2) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Expected results: The cronjobs for the users keep working
I've created a cron job that runs every minute to run the script. INFO (pidfile fd = 3) Dec 24 11:17:46 raspberrypi cron[324]: (pi) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Dec Re: [Freeipa-users] cron reports "ORPHAN (no passwd entry)" for the @reboot jobs Harald Dunkel [Freeipa-users] freeipa password policy ( hsitory ) getting reset with password reset Rakesh Rajasekharan; Re: [Freeipa-users] is it possible to use 'ipa-replica' to syncuserbetween different suffix AD and IPA domain? Matrix The mask it uses is 533 and the resulting masked permissions must be 400, which means that it will allow read (4) or read/write (4+2) bits for the owner of the file, and no more than read (4) for group and other. Jul 12 20:47:13 DD-WRT cron.info cron[1307]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Jul 12 20:47:13 DD-WRT cron.info cron[1307]: (crontabs) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) Jul 12 20:47:13 DD-WRT user.info syslog: cron : cron daemon successfully started Jul 12 20:47:17 DD-WRT user.info syslog: vpn modules : vpn modules successfully unloaded