How To Install cronie-anacron on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-anacron on Rocky Linux 8.
What is cronie-anacron
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 or dnf to install cronie-anacron on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cronie-anacron.
Install cronie-anacron 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 cronie-anacron using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cronie-anacron
Install cronie-anacron 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 cronie-anacron using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cronie-anacron
How To Uninstall cronie-anacron on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the cronie-anacron package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cronie-anacron
cronie-anacron Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/anacrontab
/etc/cron.hourly/0anacron
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/6b094fa55505597cb69dc5a6b7f5f30b04d40f
/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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-anacron on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.