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+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Cronie(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified
+    programs at scheduled times and related tools."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie"
+    url      = "https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/archive/cronie-1.5.5.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.5.5', sha256='22c2a2b22577c0f776c1268d0e0f305c5c041e10155022a345b43b665da0ffe9')
+
+    def autoreconf(self, spec, prefix):
+        bash = which('bash')
+        bash('./autogen.sh')
+
+    def setup_run_environment(self, env):
+        env.prepend_path('PATH', self.prefix.sbin)