Why cron fails to run a job with "crond: System error" in syslog?
Issue
- cron job output "System error"
- the cron job is not run
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
- relevant RPMs:
vixie-cron-4.1-36.EL4,pam-0.77-66.14
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