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  1. Bug #790532
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 790532

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote : Re: [Bug 790532] Re: pam upgrade broke cron

* Bart Verwilst <email address hidden>:
> If it's indeed a problem in the package, maybe another upgrade would be
> advisable, even if it's just to trigger a restart of the crons..

Well, not via unattended-upgrades, since that just broke :)

> We have 1600 servers that need to have cron restarted now,

If feel your pain!!!

> if we wouldn't be aware of this issue, this could really mess up vital
> parts of our organisation that depend on timed executions.

It did here.

> A new release that restarts cron could make the amount of bad surpises
> over the next couple of days a lot less for a lot of unaware system
> admins.

For all those people who didn't notice their cron not running,
unattended-upgrades won't work!

It's truly FUBARed