Just had a problem about a crontab not being executed for a system user. In /var/cron/log the message
The cure was simple: The system user "cyrus" had a locked password in /etc/shadow:
! bad user (cyrus) Mon May 9 08:05:00 2011shows up.
The cure was simple: The system user "cyrus" had a locked password in /etc/shadow:
cyrus:*LK*:::::::Cron does not like this. Just set a random password for the user and throw it away. Damn. Solaris 10 Cron does not work with "locked password"-Users.
