Crontab missing from most recent AWS Linux AMI

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Hello Team,

For the AMI ID ami-02f3f602d23f1659d (al2023-ami-2023.0.20230315.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64), I am seeing that crontab is missing

[root@ip-172-31-11-172 ~]# contab -l -bash: contab: command not found

After that I have installed the crontab manually using the command yum install cronie cronie-anacron But could you please let me know, Is the AWS missed to include crontab or hereafter the AMI will come up without crontab. Could you please confirm.

asked a year ago475 views
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The specific AMI referred in the question seems to be a Community AMI. The image doesn't come with crontab and it has to be installed manually. Although I couldn't find any documentation for the specific reason as to why crontab is not installed, I was able to confirm that the instance is installed without crontab confirming our assumption that community editions may not have crontab.

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answered a year ago

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