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cron package

  1. Bug #27520
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 27520

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Stephane Chazelas (stephane-chazelas) wrote : Re: cron no longer respects nsswitch.conf

Also affects Ubuntu lucid 10.04.

crontabs for LDAP users are ignored on boot. You need to edit the user's crontab or cron reload for the LDAP users crontabs to be loaded.

A work around could be to do a "reload cron" every time a network interface goes up or down.

I suppose the fix would be to load all the crontabs but to check for the presence of the user only upon running the jobs.