cronie - Daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools

cronie is a daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times and optionally mails generated output to the user. It is a fork of the original ISC cron and contains many improvements, such as:

inotify support (Linux only)
clustering support
full PAM support

cronie is fully compatible with ISC cron (Debian's standard job scheduler), and can be used as a drop-in replacement for it.

Homepage	https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie

Arch rolling

Debian experimental

Fedora rawhide

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

Fedora 30

Fedora 31

Manjaro rolling

Fedora 29

Fedora 30

Fedora 28

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CentOS 7.7.1908

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Distribution		Version	Since	Package	Installed	Packager
Arch rolling core/os	xz	1.5.5-1	2019-11-03	78.1 kiB	233 kiB	Christian Hesse
CentOS 7.7.1908 os	rpm	1.4.11-23.el7	2020-01-07	91.8 kiB	215 kiB	CentOS BuildSystem
Debian experimental experimental/main	deb	1.5.5-3	2019-11-05	89.3 kiB	273 kiB	Christian Kastner
Fedora 28 releases/Everything-os	rpm	1.5.1-9.fc28	2019-01-14	105 kiB	246 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 28 releases/Server-os	rpm	1.5.1-9.fc28	2019-01-14	105 kiB	246 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 29 releases/Everything-os	rpm	1.5.2-2.fc29	2019-01-14	107 kiB	317 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 29 releases/Server-os	rpm	1.5.2-2.fc29	2019-01-14	107 kiB	317 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 29 releases-test/Everything-os	rpm	1.5.2-2.fc29	2019-01-14	107 kiB	317 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 29 releases-test/Server-os	rpm	1.5.2-2.fc29	2019-01-14	107 kiB	317 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 30 releases/Everything-os	rpm	1.5.4-1.fc30	2019-06-17	103 kiB	360 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 30 releases/Server-os	rpm	1.5.4-1.fc30	2019-06-17	103 kiB	360 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 30 releases-test/Server-os	rpm	1.5.2-5.fc30	2019-06-17	103 kiB	359 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora 31 releases/Everything-os	rpm	1.5.4-2.fc31	2020-01-07	112 kiB	329 kiB	Fedora Project
Fedora rawhide development/Everything-os	rpm	1.5.5-2.fc32	2020-02-08	113 kiB	323 kiB	Fedora Project
Manjaro rolling stable/core	xz	1.5.4-1	2019-03-30	76.9 kiB	235 kiB	Christian Hesse
Manjaro rolling testing/core	xz	1.5.4-1	2019-03-23	76.9 kiB	235 kiB	Christian Hesse
Manjaro rolling unstable/core	xz	1.5.4-1	2019-03-21	76.9 kiB	235 kiB	Christian Hesse
OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 oss	rpm	1.5.1-lp150.2.32	2019-01-17	107 kiB	249 kiB	https://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 update/oss	rpm	1.5.1-lp150.3.3.1	2019-06-17	100 kiB	249 kiB	http://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 oss	rpm	1.5.1-lp151.3.34	2019-04-09	98.1 kiB	249 kiB	https://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 update/oss	rpm	1.5.1-lp151.4.6.1	2019-12-09	100 kiB	249 kiB	http://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 update/oss	rpm	1.5.1-lp151.4.3.1	2019-06-17	99.8 kiB	249 kiB	http://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss	rpm	1.5.1-lp152.6.10	2020-03-23	99.5 kiB	249 kiB	https://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 oss	rpm	1.4.11-60.13	2019-01-17	90 kiB	220 kiB	http://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 update/oss	rpm	1.4.11-61.3.1	2019-01-21	91.9 kiB	224 kiB	http://bugs.opensuse.org
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss	rpm	1.5.5-81.1	2019-12-13	111 kiB	292 kiB	https://bugs.opensuse.org

Manual pages

cronnext(1)

cronnext - time of next job cron will execute

crontab(1)

crontab - maintains crontab files for individual users

anacrontab(5)

/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for Anacron

crontab(5)

crontab - files used to schedule the execution of programs

anacron(8)

anacron - runs commands periodically

cron(8)

crond - daemon to execute scheduled commands

Latest updates

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp152.6.9 to 1.5.1-lp152.6.10

2020-03-23

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp152.6.8 to 1.5.1-lp152.6.9

2020-03-19

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp152.6.7 to 1.5.1-lp152.6.8

2020-02-25

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp152.6.5 to 1.5.1-lp152.6.7

2020-02-19

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

Fedora rawhide development/Everything-os: Updated from 1.5.5-1.fc32 to 1.5.5-2.fc32

2020-02-08

Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp152.6.3 to 1.5.1-lp152.6.5

2020-02-04

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp152.6.2 to 1.5.1-lp152.6.3

2020-01-17

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

Fedora 31 releases/Everything-os: Version 1.5.4-2.fc31 introduced

2020-01-07

Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Version 1.5.1-lp152.6.2 introduced

2020-01-07

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

CentOS 7.7.1908 os: Version 1.4.11-23.el7 introduced

2020-01-07

Make cronie restart on failure
Resolves: rhbz#1651730

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 1.5.5-80.1 to 1.5.5-81.1

2019-12-13

change permissions calls in spec file to use slashes for directories [boo#1158130]

OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 update/oss: Updated from 1.5.1-lp151.4.3.1 to 1.5.1-lp151.4.6.1

2019-12-09

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 1.5.5-79.1 to 1.5.5-80.1

2019-12-04

drop 'checkproc' line from the run-crons as the usage is bogus
bsc#1155929

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 1.5.5-78.1 to 1.5.5-79.1

2019-11-18

update cronie-nheader_lines.diff so it doesn't print the first 3 crontab lines (static comments) with the 'crontab -l' command
bsc#1155114

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 1.5.4-77.2 to 1.5.5-78.1

2019-11-09

update to 1.5.5
- Avoid warning for strncat.
- crontab: fsync to check for full disk
- crontab: Add Y/N to retry prompt
- entries: Explicitly validate upper ranges and steps
- crond: report missing newline before EOF
- do not log carriage return
- skip directories when given as crontabs
- crontab -l colors comment lines in a different color
- getdtablesize() can return very high values in containers
- Power supply name not detected correctly.
- Revert "Avoid creating pid files when crond doesn't fork"
- anacron: fix types in comparisons
- mics: stop using plain integer as NULL pointer
- cron: fix type in comparison and variable shadowing
- cron: mark signal number arguments in signal handlers unused
- Move allowed() and related function to security.c
- cronnext: optionally select jobs by substring
- crond: Do not abort loading crontab prematurely in case of error
refresh cronie-nheader_lines.diff
remove cronie-1.5.4-dont_abort_loading_crontab.patch and cronie-1.5.4-always_create_pid_file.patch (applied upstream)

Debian experimental experimental/main: Updated from 1.5.5-2 to 1.5.5-3

2019-11-05

Add Hurd-workaround-for-PATH_MAX.patch (Closes: #638048)
Fix spelling error in previous changelog entry

Fedora rawhide development/Everything-os: Updated from 1.5.4-2.fc31 to 1.5.5-1.fc32

2019-11-05

new upstream release 1.5.5 with multiple bug fixes and improvements

Arch rolling testing/os: Version 1.5.5-1 removed

2019-11-03

Arch rolling core/os: Updated from 1.5.4-3 to 1.5.5-1

2019-11-03

Debian experimental experimental/main: Updated from 1.5.5-1 to 1.5.5-2

2019-11-03

Related packages

cronie-anacron - Utility for running regular jobs

cronie-anacron-debuginfo - Debug information for package cronie-anacron

cronie-debuginfo - Debug information for package cronie

cronie-debugsource - Debug sources for package cronie

cronie-noanacron - Utility for running simple regular jobs in old cron style