How To Install cronie on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie on Rocky Linux 8. cronie is Cron daemon for executing programs at set times

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cronie

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 or dnf to install cronie on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cronie.

Install cronie 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cronie

Install cronie 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cronie

How To Uninstall cronie on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove cronie

cronie Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/cron.d
/etc/cron.d/0hourly
/etc/cron.deny
/etc/pam.d/crond
/etc/sysconfig/crond
/lib/systemd/system/crond.service
/usr/bin/cronnext
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/fc08d45998b2b12ac76b2c6993c2053dae1103
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/571ebb01669fc6683ae3c87375d1e79018d3fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/924a16123825d3f422be80ab8e78c7ef4055f1
/usr/sbin/crond
/usr/share/doc/cronie
/usr/share/doc/cronie/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cronie/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cronie/README
/usr/share/licenses/cronie
/usr/share/licenses/cronie/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cronnext.1.gz
/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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.