Re: cron is failing to run for selinux context, but everything looks fine

[Samuel Sieb]

On 7/28/20 10:35 AM, stan via users wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed that some jobs that are started by dwatch,
> aren't starting.  If I start them manually, they start fine.  dwatch is
> in cron.d, and should be running every 5 minutes, but no cron jobs are
> running.  I see the following in journalctl,

Are any other cron jobs running?
> Jul 28 10:07:08 localhost.localdomain crond[1192]: (root) FAILED (loading cron table)
> Jul 28 10:07:08 localhost.localdomain crond[1192]: ((null)) No SELinux security context (/etc/crontab)
> but when I check the security context, it seems fine to me.
> -rw-r--r--. 1 0 0 system_u:object_r:system_cron_spool_t:s0  451 Jul 24  2019 /etc/crontab

I don't see how this is related to something in /etc/cron.d