User's cron entry error out with CROND ORPHAN (no passwd entry)

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • If cron ever orphans a crontab (typically due to a temporary NSS lookup failure, ie. NIS or LDAP servers unreachable) during startup or following a crontab edit, that crontab will never be reloaded until the crontab is edited again or cron is restarted.

Cron logs the following.

Oct 31 11:51:01 server.example.com crond[3585]: (root) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
Oct 31 11:51:01 server.example.com crond[3585]: (user1) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • cronie

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