After adding a recurring transaction, the UI shows the following warning:

Message: It seems the cron job that is necessary to support recurring transactions has never run. This is of course normal when you have just installed Firefly III, but this should be something to set up as soon as possible. Please check out the help-pages using the (?)-icon in the top right corner of the page.

After looking into it, I found that the cron job is added in the CloudronManifest.json file. But looking in the application logs, showed nothing about that task actually being run.

So I opened the console, and ran the command manually:

sudo -u www-data php /app/code/artisan firefly-iii:cron

This resulted in an error. Instead of pasting the gigantic stack trace, let me summarize it:

[2020-02-08 00:24:14] local.ERROR: SQLSTATE[08006] [7] invalid port number: "${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT}" (SQL: select * from "recurrences" where "recurrences"."deleted_at" is null order by "active" desc, "title" asc) {"exception":"[object] (Illuminate\\Database\\QueryException(code: 7): SQLSTATE[08006] [7] invalid port number: \"${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT}\" (SQL: select * from \"recurrences\" where \"recurrences\".\"deleted_at\" is null order by \"active\" desc, \"title\" asc) at /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:669)

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[previous exception] [object] (Doctrine\\DBAL\\Driver\\PDOException(code: 7): SQLSTATE[08006] [7] invalid port number: \"${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT}\" at /app/code/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Driver/PDOConnection.php:31)

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[previous exception] [object] (PDOException(code: 7): SQLSTATE[08006] [7] invalid port number: \"${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT}\" at /app/code/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Driver/PDOConnection.php:27)

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Any idea why this fails?

@murgero I actually haven't used Firefly before this (was waiting for the 'perfect' setup..). Do subsequent imports happen automatically? Or does the user need to trigger it? I know there's a cron that's supposed to run once per day and I believe that's set up properly in the CloudronManifest, but not sure how to test that that is doing its job properly.

@timbo when did you last pull the project's code? That was an issue originally, but should have been solved with some more recent updates.

i just installed the "unstable"-Version from the App Store.

@timbo when did you last pull the project's code? That was an issue originally, but should have been solved with some more recent updates.

Installing them manually does not help(?). Is this a Cloudron-thing?