Ubuntu
cron package

  1. Natty (11.04)
  2. Bug #27520
  3. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 27520

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Christian Kastner (ckk) wrote : Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing "ORPHAN" message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

On 06/08/2011 12:30 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> In the longer term, obviously it would be great for cron better
> integrate with network-based user databases, but it would be nice to
> hear from some Ubuntu developers whether that sort of change is likely
> to get backported to Lucid?

This is the key point. I talked to an Ubuntu Dev for the 11.04 release,
but we didn't make it in time and upstart was also missing a feature we
needed to emulate the LSB "Should-Start" header (I'm grossly simplifying
here).