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Enable cron Daemon

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9.1.1 Enable cron Daemon (Scored)

Profile Applicability

  • Level 1

Description

The cron daemon is used to execute batch jobs on the system.

Rationale

While there may not be user jobs that need to be run on the system, the system does have maintenance jobs that may include security monitoring that have to run and cron is used to execute them.

Audit Procedure

Using Command Line

Ensure proper start conditions listed for cron:

/sbin/initctl show-config cron

Expected Result

cron
  start on runlevel [2345]
  stop on runlevel [!2345]

Remediation

Using Command Line

Edit start lines in /etc/init/cron.conf to match the following:

start on runlevel [2345]

Default Value

cron is enabled by default.

References

  • CIS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server Benchmark v1.1.0

Profile

Level 1 - Scored