Comment 28 for bug 27520
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| Christian Kastner (ckk) wrote Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon starts before LDAP/NIS client, causing "ORPHAN" message for all LDAP/NIS-defined users | #28 |
On 06/07/2011 06:13 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Note that while the trigger is cron starting before the respective user
> database (NIS, LDAP, whatever), cron should really re-check each time to
> be resilient to temporary network hicc-ups.
In general, cron does not contain a single line of networking code,
temporary network hiccups really aren't its problem. Please don't take
this wrong, I'm merely trying to point the difficulties I face as a
Maintainer.
In this particular case, though, temporary hiccups would only matter if
a crontab were to be changed and saved during such a hiccup, so the risk
is only minor.