How To Install crontabs on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs in Fedora 36. crontabs is Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs on Fedora 36.

What is crontabs

This package is used by Fedora 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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crontabs.

Install crontabs on Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36

To uninstall only the crontabs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove crontabs

crontabs Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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 Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).