How To Install crontabs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. crontabs.noarch is Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is crontabs.noarch

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 to install crontabs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crontabs.noarch.

Install crontabs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install crontabs.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install crontabs.noarch

How To Uninstall crontabs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the crontabs.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove crontabs.noarch

crontabs.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.monthly
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/crontab
/etc/sysconfig/run-parts
/usr/bin/run-parts
/usr/share/man/man4/crontabs.4.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/run-parts.4.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crontabs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.