crond daemon or cron is used to execute cron jobs in the background. It is nothing but the daemon that handles and executes commands to run the cronjobs in accordance with the specified schedule. All the schedules and required corresponding commands are stored in the file “crontab”. The full directory path to access this file in Linux is /etc/crontab. In another word, the crond is a server daemon that performs a long-running process in order to execute commands at specified date and time as per the assigned Cron job. It is started during system startup from the /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond file. The cron program itself is located under /usr/sbin/crond.
reference:
https://www.servercake.blog/crond-linux/
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