To enable fcron by default, administrator have to run the following command: chkconfig --level 2345 fcron on You can use crontabs provided by the package "crontabs", fcron knows how to deal with this format. As superuser, enter the following command: fcrontab /etc/crontab The fcron_watch_config service synchronizes automatically fcron control files with /etc/fcrontab, /etc/crontab and files in /etc/cron.d whenever they are modified. To activate this service in the default case, one should run: chkconfig --level 2345 fcron_watch_config on To remove definitively the fcron package, you'll have to remove the fcron user by hand, and the /var/spool/fcron directory which contains the binary fcrontabs.