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by jaboy78 1 view

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why my cron have this error

> root 6643 c Mon Jan 26 20:50:00 2004
! bad user (root) Mon Jan 26 20:53:44 2004

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by joematus

I've seen this on a SUN and the cause was that the password had expired. Look at the /etc/shadow file to see if there are any errors in it. The "man shadow" will give you info on what it should look like. Resetting the password worked for me.

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