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 clusters.
Cannot execute omd command omd start tkds: Creating temporary filesystem /omd/sites/tkds/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 ERROR OK
To solve this problem run the following commands:
chgrp crontab /var/spool/cron/crontab dpkg-reconfigure cron
The problem is fixed with Werk #9390 from the firmware version 1.4.9. This will not happen after a fresh installation.
If you do a firmware update from < 1.4.9 you may run into this problem. If this happens you need to change the group permissions of cron. From that point it will never happen again.
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