Hello Matt,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:14:53 -0500 Matt matt.mailinglists@gmail.com wrote:

Do you need cron installed for the files in /etc/cron.daily/ to execute? Did a Centos 6.x minimal openvz install and noticed cron is not installed by default and after installing mlocate cant help but wander if it will be updated without it.

For this you need cronie (the cron daemon) and crontabs (user bindings, including root), see `yum info`:

Installed Packages Name : cronie Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.4.4 Release : 12.el6 Size : 174 k Repo : installed From repo : base Summary : Cron daemon for executing programs at set times URL : https://fedorahosted.org/cronie License : MIT and BSD and ISC and GPLv2 Description : Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at : scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and : has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and : SELinux.

Name : crontabs Arch : noarch Version : 1.10 Release : 33.el6 Size : 2.4 k Repo : installed From repo : anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64 Summary : Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs License : Public Domain and GPLv2 Description : 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.

Regards,