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JeOS: Install the missing crontab command

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While working with my Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 virtual machine, I found that crontab was not included by default. It is used to schedule tasks at specified times.

Cron is a daemon used for scheduling tasks to be executed at a certain time. Each user has a crontab file, allowing them to specify actions and times that they should be executed. There is also a system crontab, allowing tasks such as log rotation and locate database updating to be done regularly.  Read more here..

The shell confirmed that crontab was missing:

-bash: crontab: command not found 

Install cron

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sudo apt-get install cron

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  1. Supraveghere Video

    If crontab is missing the cron package was skipped... Bad media? Bad package? Maybe other packages are skipped. If this happened it's best to check your install.