mediumservicesunverifiedrollback-safe
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