Why aren't my scheduled cron jobs running?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Scheduled cron jobs are not running with below error messages
crontab: pam_unix(crond:account): expired password for user syslog2dba (password aged)
crontab: pam_unix(crond:account): expired password for user syslog2dba (password aged)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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