Hi all,

I just noticed the same messages in the cron-log:
! bad user (root)

After reading this topic I looked at the shadow-file.
I noticed that for the root-user there was no *LK* but the fields MAX
and WARN (see manpage shadow) were filled.
Probably the password of root had expired which resulted in the
errormessage of cron.
I removed the two fields and reset the password.
Now everything works fine again.

Thanks and I hope this will help you...

Marcel

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