Re: CentOS 5.3 cron / crontab missing?

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Bent Terp <bent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am I missing something here?

vixie-cron?
[root@misc ~]# rpmquery --whatprovides $(which crontab)
vixie-cron-4.1-76.el5

BR Bent
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mmm, I didn't think of that:


[root@zaxen01 ~]# rpmquery --whatprovides $(which crontab)
/usr/bin/which: no crontab in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sb               in:/usr/bin:/root/bin)
rpmquery: no arguments given for query
[root@zaxen01 ~]# yum install vixie-cron

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vixie-cron.x86_64 4:4.1-76.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

===============================================================================================
 Package                 Arch                Version                   Repository         Size
===============================================================================================
Installing:
 vixie-cron              x86_64              4:4.1-76.el5              base               80 k

Transaction Summary
===============================================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 80 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Installed: vixie-cron.x86_64 4:4.1-76.el5
Complete!



[root@zaxen01 ~]# rpmquery --whatprovides $(which crontab)
vixie-cron-4.1-76.el5





[root@zaxen01 ~]# cron
crond    crontab
 

Cool, thanx, now it's working again :)


So, what exactly does the crontabs rpm do then?
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