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Root crontabs/cronjobs not executing or running

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Well as the title says: the cronjobs of the root user didn’t run on one of my servers (MY MACHINE!) and it took a while to figure out why they weren’t running. It ended up to be something with locking the root account. These steps fixed the problem:

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sudo passwd -l root
sudo usermod -p ! root

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