How To Install crontabs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crontabs.
Install crontabs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install crontabs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install crontabs
Install crontabs on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install crontabs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install crontabs
How To Uninstall crontabs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the crontabs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove crontabs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.