No cron restart after pam upgrade?

[Peter Matulis]

On 11-05-30 09:17 PM, Simon Males wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just had three 10.10 servers perform an unattended-upgrade to
> libpam* and all three servers started producing the following errors
> in syslog:
> 
> CRON[31500]: Module is unknown
> 
> Restarting cron brought things back to life.
> 
> There are a number of different threads (not Ubuntu specific)
> detailing a similar situation: Cron error on libpam upgrade.
> 
> Is it a fair suggestion that cron should restart on a libpam upgrade?
> 

Yep:

$ ldd /usr/sbin/cron | grep pam

	libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x003b0000)

-- 
Peter