Bug 23337

Summary:	vcron writes "ORPHAN (no passwd entry)" to syslog
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Raimund Specht <raimund>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Benjamin Coles <sj7trunks>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	mr_bones_
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Raimund Specht 2003-06-23 11:30:10 UTC

When using vcron on a system that imports users via NIS (YP), vcron reports
"ORPHAN (no passwd entry)" to syslog on startup and doesn't execute user
crontabs. This is because when vcron is started, ypbind hasn't been started yet
and vcron can't find the user entries in /etc/passwd.
Adding a "use ypbind" dependency in vcron's rc-script should help.

(Maybe fcron and dcron are affected as well.)

Comment 1 Benjamin Coles 2003-10-15 18:55:00 UTC

I just tried this out with openldap, I believe it's the same functionality.
I got "orphan" for the process trying to start w/o ldap running but once
I started openldap back up the orphan error's went away.. Check your /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
to see if they get uid when you start ypbind that is if the error keeps on
popping up after ypbind. What you suggested to fix this problem won't be
valid due to adding half a dozen other programs to be depended which isn't
likely. Will have to check for another solution.

Comment 2 Benjamin Coles 2003-10-19 10:04:10 UTC

This bug is OLD, moving to worksforme