Re: cron stopped working, permission denied message in auth.log

[Rich Rudnick <rrudnick@sbcglobal.net>]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 11:37, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm rather lost with this problem, which has caused cron to stop
> functioning on my debian unstable system. No ideas really on what might
> be going on, but /var/log/auth.log is filled with messages like:
> 
> Sep 10 20:32:01 maui cron(pam_unix)[22140]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=0)
> Sep 10 20:32:01 maui CRON[22140]: Permission denied
> Sep 10 20:33:01 maui cron(pam_unix)[22247]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=0)
> Sep 10 20:33:01 maui CRON[22247]: Permission denied
> 
I'll bet you're running gnome2, and have experimental in your
sources.list.  If so, you probably upgraded libpam0, libpam-modules, and
libpam-runtime to the experimental versions.  Downgrade to the versions
in unstable, and either learn pinning (I didn't) or put those packages
on hold (I did).