Package: cron (3.0pl1-128 and others)

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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

Packages providing cron

bcron-run: Bruce cron system (integration with runit)

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dep: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)

Debian package management system

dep: adduser

add and remove users and groups
dep: debianutils (>= 1.7)

Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
dep: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~)

helper tools for all init systems
dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.17-91) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]

GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc0.1-udeb
dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.7) [hurd-i386]

GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
dep: libc6 (>= 2.16) [x32]

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

dep: libc6 (>= 2.17) [arm64, ppc64el]

dep: libc6 (>= 2.19) [sh4]

dep: libc6 (>= 2.7) [not alpha, arm64, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, ppc64el, sh4, x32]
dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7) [alpha]

GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
dep: libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11)

Runtime support for the PAM library
dep: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)

Pluggable Authentication Modules library
dep: libselinux1 (>= 1.32) [not hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]

SELinux runtime shared libraries
dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)

Linux Standard Base init script functionality

rec: exim4

metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation

or postfix

High-performance mail transport agent

or mail-transport-agent

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

sug: anacron (>= 2.0-1)

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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Download for all available architectures
Architecture	Version	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
alpha (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	94.2 kB	339.0 kB	[list of files]
amd64	3.0pl1-128+b1	93.2 kB	251.0 kB	[list of files]
arm64	3.0pl1-128+b1	89.7 kB	243.0 kB	[list of files]
armel	3.0pl1-128+b1	89.9 kB	237.0 kB	[list of files]
armhf	3.0pl1-128+b1	90.2 kB	221.0 kB	[list of files]
hppa (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	92.2 kB	314.0 kB	[list of files]
hurd-i386	3.0pl1-128	92.2 kB	317.0 kB	[list of files]
i386	3.0pl1-128+b1	95.4 kB	249.0 kB	[list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64	3.0pl1-128+b1	92.4 kB	247.0 kB	[list of files]
kfreebsd-i386	3.0pl1-128+b1	94.3 kB	249.0 kB	[list of files]
m68k (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	87.3 kB	189.0 kB	[list of files]
mips	3.0pl1-128+b1	92.5 kB	252.0 kB	[list of files]
mips64el	3.0pl1-128+b1	93.3 kB	264.0 kB	[list of files]
mipsel	3.0pl1-128+b1	92.8 kB	252.0 kB	[list of files]
powerpc	3.0pl1-128+b1	89.2 kB	296.0 kB	[list of files]
powerpcspe (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	89.3 kB	296.0 kB	[list of files]
ppc64 (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128+b1	90.4 kB	302.0 kB	[list of files]
ppc64el	3.0pl1-128+b1	90.7 kB	299.0 kB	[list of files]
s390x	3.0pl1-128+b1	92.0 kB	259.0 kB	[list of files]
sh4 (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	92.3 kB	304.0 kB	[list of files]
sparc64 (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	89.6 kB	321.0 kB	[list of files]
x32 (unofficial port)	3.0pl1-128	92.7 kB	314.0 kB	[list of files]