How To Install cronie-anacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-anacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is cronie-anacron.x86_64
Anacron is part of cronie that is used for running jobs with regular periodicity which do not have exact time of day of execution. The default settings of anacron execute the daily, weekly, and monthly jobs, but anacron allows setting arbitrary periodicity of jobs. Using anacron allows running the periodic jobs even if the system is often powered off and it also allows randomizing the time of the job execution for better utilization of resources shared among multiple systems.
We can use yum to install cronie-anacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cronie-anacron.x86_64.
Install cronie-anacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cronie-anacron.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cronie-anacron.x86_64
How To Uninstall cronie-anacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the cronie-anacron.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove cronie-anacron.x86_64
cronie-anacron.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/anacrontab
/etc/cron.hourly/0anacron
/usr/sbin/anacron
/usr/share/man/man5/anacrontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/anacron.8.gz
/var/spool/anacron
/var/spool/anacron/cron.daily
/var/spool/anacron/cron.monthly
/var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-anacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.