The cronie recipe should add anacron support but this functionality does not work properly due to a typo in the cronie_1.5.0.bb recipe. XTRA_OECONF = "--enable-anacron" should have been EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-anacron" The result: CROND[6658]: (root) CMDOUT (/etc/cron.hourly/0anacron: line 17: /usr/sbin/anacron: No such file or directory)
manually correct the recipe
configure a wrlinux 8 RCPL23 project and try to use anacron from cronie in the deployed rootfs