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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rajiv Garg <rajiv AT rajivgarg DOT com>
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Subject: Intermittent Cron Errors
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Hi,

We are seeing intermittent cron errors on some of our servers.  We run about
a couple of hundred jobs on these servers, and about 5% of them fail with
the error "can't switch user context").  We enabled verbose logging, and in
/var/log/cron.log see messages that say "cannot set uid for <user>".  What
is odd is that the same job, with the same user will run successfully 95% of
the time.  So it doesn't seem to be a permission issue or configuration
issue.

Can anyone shed some light on where we should next for this?  Output from
cronbug is attached.

Thanks,
Rajiv


http://www.nabble.com/file/p24395640/cronbug.txt cronbug.txt 
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