Adjust cron jobs for Mautic... is it possible?

[girish]

You can edit the /app/data/crontab.system patterns as you wish . See https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/mautic/#system-cron-jobs . I agree that mautic's flow of calling cron for everything is suboptimial. This is why the package made the patterns editable . In fact, for processing any task, the mautic way is to run a cronjob manually.

[dsp76]

Would that mean I can add my custom script (that calls the CLI commands) and add a cronjobs for this?

[girish]

Yes, you can add your custom script that calls CLI comands in https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/mautic/#custom-cron-jobs

[dsp76]

@girish said in Adjust cron jobs for Mautic... is it possible?:

You can edit the /app/data/crontab.system patterns as you wish . See https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/mautic/#system-cron-jobs . I agree that mautic's flow of calling cron for everything is suboptimial. This is why the package made the patterns editable . In fact, for processing any task, the mautic way is to run a cronjob manually.

Will this file stay intact with every Mautic update via cloudron? Because I would then comment them out and completely replace them with custom cron jobs.

[nebulon]

Yes the cronjobs configured via the UI will persist the update. All in all I am still unsure if its now a good or bad idea to provide default cron jobs for mautic or not. Maybe active mautic users could give some more insights on this?

[dsp76]

We have years long experience with mautic

Its important to help with a default cronjob setup. The one from the docs work, but its not optimal. I will help setting it up in a better way together with you, if you like.

For now it would be good, if the out of the box setup for cronjobs in cloudron could also be disabled. I did it by commenting out every line in the crontab.system - but will this be replaced again by an update or not? Its in the /app/data directory. So I think it will not?

I already changed my cronjob setup with a shell file. I trigger this every minute, in case its still running, it will be ignored. I will need to extend it by other optional cronjob tasks - maybe having even two or more scripts. One to run every minute (if server can handle it). And then some maintenance task that don't need to run that often.

#! /bin/sh

# Variables
phpinterpreter="php -d memory_limit=1G"
pathtoconsole="../code/bin/console"
lockfile="/tmp/cronjob.lock"

# Locking mechanism
if [ -f "$lockfile" ]; then
    echo "Script is already running."
    exit
fi
touch "$lockfile"

# Function to execute commands
execute_command() {
    $phpinterpreter $pathtoconsole $1
}

# Execute commands
execute_command "mautic:segments:update --batch-limit=900" \
    && execute_command "mautic:campaigns:rebuild --batch-limit=300" \
    && execute_command "mautic:campaigns:trigger" \
    && execute_command "mautic:broadcasts:send --batch=800" \
    && execute_command "mautic:emails:send --message-limit=790" \
    && execute_command "mautic:unusedip:delete" \
    && execute_command "mautic:import --limit=500" \
    && execute_command "mautic:webhooks:process" \
    && execute_command "mautic:reports:scheduler"

# Unlock the script at the end
rm -f "$lockfile"

Myself I'm not a script or Linux Professional. Probably that approach can be improved.

[dsp76]

For instance - whats the php memory limit on cli? Is it the same limit as for the mautic instance overall?

[girish]

@dsp76 By default, the cli and apache have same php memory limit - 512M . If you change the memory_limit in /app/data/php.ini , it will affect both.

[rmdes]

Any having issues with cron jobs ?

my segments have stopped updating automatically but I haven't touched the crontab.system or crontab.user
neither have I customized anything regarding cron jobs in Mautic

[girish]

Anything in the logs? Which mautic package are you on?