Cron after changing users primary group
2007-12-25 4:32:00
I have a strange problem where I thought I knew the answer as to why it
wasn't working....
I have a user where I needed to change it's primary group. When I done
this on a test server it's cron jobs failed after I had changed the
group with the error message....
! bad user (user) or setgid failed (user) Sun Feb 13 03:00:00 2005
After some testing I updated the crontab file and tested it worked ok,
so re-applying the crontab seemed to have solved the problem.
I have done this on a couple of servers and it all worked ok.
However I have one server where it didn't work and I got the above error
message again. I checked that I had re-applied the crontab and did so
it's not human error !
The password for this user has not expired and I have since run another
test in cron which has worked.
Does anybody know why cron failed ?
I will summarise,
Colin.
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