On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:25:25PM +0100, h...@stare.cz wrote:
> This is what cron said to me on a current/macppc,
> when incidentally, the machine was just (re)booting:
>
> On Dec 28 12:00:01, root wrote:
> > approval failed for hans
>
>
> Dec 28 12:00:04 www syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Dec 28 12:00:53 www syslogd: start
> Dec 28 12:00:53 www /bsd: syncing disks... done
> Dec 28 12:00:53 www /bsd: support
> Dec 28 12:00:53 www /bsd: o
> Dec 28 12:00:53 www /bsd: [ using 501892 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
> [...]
>
>
> Could someone please elaborate on the cron behaviour
> when the cron minute is a reboot minute?
> In particular, what "aproval" is needed in that case?
>
> Jan
Likely /etc/nologin was already made by shutdown(8). This is a
reason for auth_approval(3) to fail.
-Otto
