Re: job in crontab not running

[Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:33, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> The nscd is not required for cron jobs to run.  I don't want to
> suggest that you thrash your production machine but if you could test
> this on a test machine I think you will find that nscd is not required
> for cron.  Really it isn't!  I assure you that since I had a bad
> experience with it that I never install nscd, or remove it if I find
> it installed, and yet cron works perfectly fine for all users.
> Specifically I am talking about NIS/YP accounts.

Thanks, I think I'm following your point now. I'll have a look.

Cheers

Adam