Cron required for scheduled jobs

Admintools uses the Linux cron package to schedule jobs that regularly rotate the database logs. Without this package installed, the database logs will never be rotated. The lack of rotation can lead to a significant consumption of storage for logs. On busy clusters, Vertica can produce hundreds of gigabytes of logs per day.

cron is installed by default on most Linux distributions, but it may not be present on some SUSE 12 systems.

To install cron, run this command:

$ sudo zypper install cron