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Hugo_vd_Kooij
Advisor

crontabs jobs fail when admin account password is expired

HI,

Today I spend a good amount of time in tracking down an issue with our backups. On some SmartCenters the backup job was not running anymore.

As it turns out your entries in crontab run as admin so admin must beable to login.

If your password is expired then those crontab jobs will not work and you will see some authentication issues in /var/log/cron instead.

Resetting the password resolves the issue.

So there is a seriuos operational side effect wiith password expiration that you should be aware off.

Hope this helps other shortening their troubleshooting..

<< We make miracles happen while you wait. The impossible jobs take just a wee bit longer. >>
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PhoneBoy
Admin
Admin

Thanks for sharing that tidbit.

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JozkoMrkvicka
Mentor
Mentor

There is even sk about that.

Expired Admin password causes scheduled backups to fail

Kind regards,
Jozko Mrkvicka
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