cronie incompatible with crond from busybox
cronie
provides /usr/sbin/crond
, cronie-openrc
uses it (hardcoded) in the init file (https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/cronie/cronie.initd?h=3.17-stable#n4)
Busybox also creates a symlink (/usr/sbin/crond -> /bin/busybox), which collides with the binary from cronie
, if cronie
is installed. If cronie-openrc
is installed, rc-status
report a wrong status and rc-service
can not start/stop/restart the service any more.