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cron package

  1. Natty (11.04)
  2. Bug #27520
  3. Comment #31

Comment 31 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 11:12 AM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 08.06.2011 01:17, schrieb Christian Kastner:
>
>> Theoretically, this could easily be extended to #27520 -- just a few
>> lines of code, actually -- but it's just not that simple, because there
>> are cases where ORPHAN is completely valid, ie the user really doesn't
>> exist.
>
> Fine, but cron should recheck.

As I mentioned earlier, I have a fix in mind for the next release which
should resolve the issue in a manner not conflicting with the other goals.