Source: cron Section: admin Priority: important Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña Uploaders: Christian Kastner Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libpam0g-dev, libselinux1-dev [linux-any], libaudit-dev [linux-any] Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron Package: cron Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}, Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, debianutils (>= 1.7), sensible-utils, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11) Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent Suggests: anacron (>= 2.0-1), logrotate, checksecurity Provides: cron-daemon Description: process scheduling daemon The cron daemon is a background process that runs particular programs at particular times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month), as specified in a crontab. By default, users may also create crontabs of their own so that processes are run on their behalf. . Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator (or to the user in question); you should probably install a mail system as well so that you can receive these messages. . This cron package does not provide any system maintenance tasks. Basic periodic maintenance tasks are provided by other packages, such as checksecurity.