As of current OSMC (2021-12), the standard UNIX service cron is not installed by default. Otherwise, there might be tools expecting cron to be available. In my OSMC installation the two folder /etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly are populated by default, but not processed (because cron is not installed).
Of course there is an easy workaround:
apt update
apt install cron
Nevertheless you will avoid user irritation if you provide cron by default.
Regards, Michael
This is a media center. I don’t know why we should need cron on it by default.
It’s in the OSMC App Store. What are you using under cron that you’d expect from a standard installation?
I’m not aware of the OSMC app store.
My point is that there might be tools installed as part of OSMC which (silently) rely on cron, e. g fakertc (I myself even don’t know that program, but it has an entry within /etc/cron.hourly). Or apt which might do some daily housekeeping.
Anyhow I aggree with Smurphy, cron doesn’r make much sense on a mediacenter. But in my installation kodi is installed on a raspberry pi 3 running 24/7 while kodi itself is active only once per week. From that perspective housekeeping tasks are valuable.
It’s only a suggestion to reduce user confusion for those users being accustomed to UNIX. And to them cron is really a standard utility.
Regards, Michael