Root crontabs/cronjobs not executing or running

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:

sudo passwd -l root
sudo usermod -p ! root

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#1 Some additional info on “User account has expired” error — vanutsteen.nl => nerds only on 02.02.10 at 07:59

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