How To Install crontabs on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is crontabs
This package is used mainly for executing files by cron. The crontabs package contains root crontab files and directories. You will need to install cron daemon to run the jobs from the crontabs. The cron daemon such as cronie or fcron checks the crontab files to see when particular commands are scheduled to be executed. If commands are scheduled, it executes them. Crontabs handles a basic system function, so it should be installed on your system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install crontabs
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crontabs.
Install crontabs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install crontabs
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install crontabs
Install crontabs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install crontabs
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install crontabs
How To Uninstall crontabs on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the crontabs
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove crontabs
crontabs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.monthly
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/crontab
/etc/sysconfig/run-parts
/usr/bin/run-parts
/usr/share/licenses/crontabs
/usr/share/licenses/crontabs/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man4/crontabs.4.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/run-parts.4.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.