Fedora 42: cron doesn't send emails

[ilikelinux]

@andresg

Has cron behaviour been changed?

It looks like it will change yes:

Cron support [systemd-crontab-generator]

Yes, systemd has timers. They work well. But there are still quite a few packages which support cron, and their systemd.timer support is wonky at best. Also, a single line in crontab, a single script in cron.daily etc… is mucheasier than 2 unit files [systemd.timer, systemd.service] with a few lines each, especially when you have a lot of cron tasks. Yes, a cron daemon is redundant. I agree. But there is a project which generates systemd units from cronjobs, automatically for the user. The …