Apocrypha

cronie

Cronie is a standard UNIX daemon cron based on the original vixie-cron

Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools. It is based on the original cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and SELinux. And why cronie? See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cronie

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1.7.2 gentoo amd64 stable arm64 stable x86 stable ppc64 stable riscv testing alpha testing arm stable hppa testing loong testing m68k testing mips testing ppc stable s390 testing sparc testing view · download · history ↗

Use flags of 1.7.2-r1

  • +anacron Install the periodic anacron command scheduler.
  • audit Enable support for Linux audit subsystem using sys-process/audit
  • +inotify Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
  • pam Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip
  • selinux !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur

Runtime dependencies of 1.7.2-r1

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