First of all, the server specs:
VPS - OpenVZ, Ubuntu 14, Kernel 3.10
Now, it appears that the cron daemon is not running ANY crojobs at all and i cannot find out why.
I tried:
- Rebooting the server.
- Restarting the
cron
daemon - Changing permissions in
/etc/crontab
,/etc/cron.d
,/etc/cron.daily
and/var/spool/cron
- Disabling one by one, the
cron
jobs fromcrontab
,cron.d
and spool ones. - Changing permission in
/usr/sbin
- Upgrading vixie cron
- Removing the
pam_loginuid.so
inpam.d
- Changing passwords around (to the ones I think were the first ones)
- Tried making a
cron
job that outputs a logfile every minute in/etc/crontab
file, usercrontab
and rootcrontab
and I still cannot find a solution.
NOTE: Whenever i changed permissions to files, I used another fresh Debian install for reference.
Also, there is this message that is being written to cron.log
every minute and also, cannot find the source of it. Attaching image:
This is my last resort before doing a full system reinstall.