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Broken A broken Cron resulting resulted in wrong group ownerships. The problem is fixed with Werk #9390 from the and firmware version 1.4.98. |
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Problem
Previous firmware versions contained an error that resulted in wrong group ownerships for , e.g., /var/spool/cron/crontab. This resulted in broken cron handling and failing clusterscould result in the error below.
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Cannot execute omd command omd start tkdsmysite: Creating temporary filesystem /omd/sites/tkdsmysite/tmp...Starting mkeventd...OK
Starting liveproxyd...OK
Starting mknotifyd...OK
Starting rrdcached...OK
Starting cmc...OK
Starting apache...OK
Starting dcd...OK
Starting stunnel...OK
Starting xinetd...OK
Initializing Crontab.../var/spool/cron/: mkstemp: Permission denied
close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr
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Solution
To solve this problem, run the following commands:
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root@linux~# chgrp crontab /var/spool/cron/crontab |
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The problem issue is fixed with Werk #9390 from the and firmware version 1.4.98 and above. This will not happen after on a fresh installation . with firmware 1.4.8 or above. If you do performed a firmware update from < to 1.4.97 or earlier, you may run into this problemissue. If In this happenscase, you need to change the group permissions of cron. From that point, it will never happen again.After applying the fix below, this issue will not resurface. |
To solve this problem, run the following commands:
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root@cma~# chgrp crontab /var/spool/cron/crontab |
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root@cma~# dpkg-reconfigure cron |
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