Bug 289215

Summary:	sys-process/vixie-cron won't run jobs for nis users
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Karl Hakimian <hyedad>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	cron-bugs+disabled, treecleaner
Priority:	High	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Deadline:	2019-10-11

Description Karl Hakimian 2009-10-15 15:57:43 UTC

By default vixie-cron starts before ypbind, so any user in nis that has cron jobs will not have the jobs run because they are unknown.

Adding use ypbind to the init.d file should take care of this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As an nis user, create a cron job
2. reboot the machine
3. See errors in log file about ORPHAN (no passwd entry)

Actual Results:  
Errors in log about no passwd entry

Expected Results:  
cron jobs should run

Should only need a quick edit to /etc/init.d/vixie-cron to add use ypbind.

Comment 1 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-31 22:34:09 UTC

so restarting vixie-cron after ypbind has started fixes this?

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2019-10-11 15:07:49 UTC

Package removed.