[SOLVED] Not able to run cron job for non-privileged user in RHEL 5.3

mail4vijay · 11-24-2009, 10:39 AM

Hi
I am not able to run cron job for non-privileged user in RHEL 5.3. and getting below errors.

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# su - bladmin
-sh-3.2$ crontab -l
#CRON Usage
#----------
# minute 0 through 59
# hour 0 through 23
# day_of_month 1 through 31
# month 1 through 12
# weekday 0 through 6 for Sunday through Saturday
# command a shell command
#
#CRON Format:
#minute hour day_of_month month weekday command
* * * * * touch /tmp/abc.bladmin

tail -f /var/log/cron
Nov 24 09:20:01 localhost crond[16619]: CRON (bladmin) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
Nov 24 09:20:01 localhost crond[16619]: CRON (bladmin) ERROR: cannot set security context

No selinux installed in the system.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

centosboy · 11-24-2009, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mail4vijay

Hi
I am not able to run cron job for non-privileged user in RHEL 5.3. and getting below errors.

No selinux installed in the system.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure , /var/log/audit/audit.log
can you show us it is disabled?

mail4vijay · 11-24-2009, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by centosboy

anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure , /var/log/audit/audit.log
can you show us it is disabled?

Hey , thanks a lot i checked in /var/log/secure that bladmin user password was expired i re-set it and now it is working fine again..

Thanks a lot again for your help.

centosboy · 11-24-2009, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mail4vijay

Hey , thanks a lot i checked in /var/log/secure that bladmin user password was expired i re-set it and now it is working fine again..

Thanks a lot again for your help.

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