Package: cron (3.0pl1-162)

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process scheduling daemon

The cron daemon is a background process that runs particular programs at particular times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month), as specified in a crontab. By default, users may also create crontabs of their own so that processes are run on their behalf.

Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator (or to the user in question); you should probably install a mail system as well so that you can receive these messages.

This cron package does not provide any system maintenance tasks. Basic periodic maintenance tasks are provided by other packages, such as checksecurity.

Tags: System Administration: Automation and Scheduling, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Daemon, Role: role::program, scope::utility

Other Packages Related to cron

• dep: cron-daemon-common

  process scheduling daemon's configuration files

• dep: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)

  helper tools for all init systems

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.34)

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

• dep: libpam-runtime

  Runtime support for the PAM library

• dep: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)

  Pluggable Authentication Modules library

• dep: libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)

  SELinux runtime shared libraries

• dep: sensible-utils

  Utilities for sensible alternative selection

• rec: default-mta

  virtual package provided by exim4-daemon-light

  or mail-transport-agent

  virtual package provided by courier-mta, dma, esmtp-run, exim4-daemon-heavy, exim4-daemon-light, msmtp-mta, nullmailer, opensmtpd, postfix, sendmail-bin, ssmtp

• sug: anacron

  cron-like program that doesn't go by time
  also a virtual package provided by systemd-cron

• sug: checksecurity

  basic system security checks

• sug: logrotate

  Log rotation utility

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