cronie (The standard UNIX cron daemon) Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools. It is based on the original cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and SELinux. By default this SlackBuild will include anacron in the package. If you don't want this, pass ANACRON=no to the SlackBuild. Note that Slackware has dcron - Dillon's Cron daemon. This package will conflict with dcron, so it is advised to remove dcron before installing cronie: Stop the dcron daemon and remove the dcron package: # /etc/rc.d/rc.crond stop # removepkg dcron # rm -rf /var/spool/cron