Thank you both for the time and helpfulness..

There was a update to dcron today and even the status of service still 
remains 
run: /var/service/dcron: (pid 780) 109s; down: log: 0s, normally up, want up

it's executing my tests as we speak after a reboot, and I also did 
-reconfigure but unsure if anything changed..

by the way how do I edit my post to change the head to SOLVED ? 

On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 12:41:25 AM UTC+1, Stefan Mühlinghaus wrote:
>
> I can see no problem with the service. Maybe you just need to do a 
> "xbps-reconfigure -f dcron"?
> No explicit "cron" group should be needed.
> Are you sure the crontabs are processed as intended if you run the daemon 
> manually?
>