runstat command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

runstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: runstat: command not found

Solutions to runstat: command not found

How To Fix runstat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu runstat is provided by cronutils package.

cronutils is:

A set of utilities to complement batch processing jobs, such as those run from cron, by limiting concurrent execution of jobs, setting hard limits on the runtime of a job, and recording execution statistics of a completed job.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cronutils

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cronutils.

sudo apt -y install cronutils

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cronutils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix runstat command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.