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Cron service not running and unable to start on VMWare photon OS 4.0

Recently I install the cronie package to use the cron jobs but I noticed that I couldn’t start the service.

root@photon [ ~ ]# tdnf install cronie

Installing:
cronie                                               x86_64                     1.5.5-1.ph4                         photon                        222.41k 227744

Total installed size: 222.41k 227744
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Downloading:
cronie                                  118712   100%
Testing transaction
Running transaction
Installing/Updating: cronie-1.5.5-1.ph4.x86_64
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/crond.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service.

Complete!

root@photon [ ~ ]# systemctl status cron
● crond.service - Command Scheduler
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

When I use the systemctl start cron the command hangs, so I installed the rsyslog to use the view the logs with this command.

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