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Ensure the cronie package is installed

pkg-cronie-present · RHEL ≥ 8 · 1 impl

Description

The cronie package must be installed to provide the cron daemon used to schedule periodic security jobs.

Rationale

Scheduled jobs such as AIDE integrity checks and log maintenance depend on cron; without cronie they silently do not run.

Check → Remediate

Checkpackage_state
name:
cronie
state:
present
Remediatepackage_present
name:
cronie

Framework references

STIG

V-281000 / RHEL-10-200700

NIST 800-53

CM-7
#package#cron