ssh-cron command not found

Introduction

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

ssh-cron: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssh-cron: command not found

Solutions to ssh-cron: command not found

How To Fix ssh-cron: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ssh-cron is provided by ssh-cron package.

ssh-cron is:

ssh-cron acts like cron, but utilizes ssh-agent to obtain ssh key passphrases. Thus it allows scheduled commands to run on remote systems without requiring the ssh key passphrase to be stored in a clear-text file, or resorting to ssh keys without passphrases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssh-cron

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

You can also use apt command to install ssh-cron.

sudo apt -y install ssh-cron

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

sudo aptitude install ssh-cron

Summary

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