How To Install cronie.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cronie.x86_64 is Cron daemon for executing programs at set times

Introduction

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

What is `cronie.x86_64`

Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and SELinux.

We can use yum to install cronie.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install cronie.x86_64

How To Uninstall cronie.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove cronie.x86_64

cronie.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.d
/etc/cron.d/0hourly
/etc/cron.deny
/etc/pam.d/crond
/etc/sysconfig/crond
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service
/usr/sbin/crond
/usr/share/doc/cronie-1.4.11
/usr/share/doc/cronie-1.4.11/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cronie-1.4.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cronie-1.4.11/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cronie-1.4.11/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/cronie-1.4.11/README
/usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cron.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/crond.8.gz
/var/spool/cron

References

cronie.x86_64 website

Summary

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