How To Install cronie-noanacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-noanacron.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cronie-noanacron.x86_64 is Utility for running simple regular jobs in old cron style

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-noanacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is cronie-noanacron.x86_64

Old style of running {hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}.jobs without anacron. No extra features.

We can use yum to install cronie-noanacron.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-noanacron.x86_64.

Install cronie-noanacron.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-noanacron.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cronie-noanacron.x86_64

How To Uninstall cronie-noanacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cronie-noanacron.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cronie-noanacron.x86_64

cronie-noanacron.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.d/dailyjobs

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-noanacron.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.