Re: Bookworm - cron?

[Steve Sobol <steve@LobosStudios.com>]

On 2023-08-05 13:16, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote:
> > Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves editing 
> > root's
> > crontab.
> >
> > But cron isn't installed.
>
> Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet
> converted to systemd timers. A bookworm install I did just yesterday
> has cron jobs in /etc/cron.d/ that require the "cron" package.
>
> What are you typing to edit root's crontab? What output do you get
> that you don't expect?

crontab -e

Bash tells me that the "crontab" command wasn't found.

dpkg -l |grep cron returned nothing.