Solved How to increase cron interval in WP-unmanaged app?

[imc67]

Hi all,

The standard cron interval in the (unmanaged)-Wordpress app is 5 minutes, I would like to increase this to 1 minute (I use the unmanaged WP app).

How do I do that as it is not a config item in Cloudron?

Kind regards,

Marcel.

[murgero]

@imc67 The cron file might be in /app/data/crontab or similar name, can you see a file like that?

[imc67]

Hi @murgero, thanks for your quick response!

In that folder there are only: credentials.txt php.ini /public

Kind regards,

Marcel.

[murgero]

@imc67 You can make the file (assuming wp-unmanged is based on the LAMP app) called crontab and put what you need in there. Would be worth a test.

[nebulon]

Currently there is no way to customize the cron schedule, it is fixed in the app package manifest to every 5 minutes. What is the use-case for making this more frequent? We can change this if there are good reasons.

[imc67]

@nebulon Hi Johannes, thanks for your response. In Wordpress itself there are 1 minute cron interval types and plugins are using it. Now some plugins give cron-errors like "there are 5 unfinished cron tasks, is there something wrong with your cron?".

Kind regards,

Marcel.

[girish]

@imc67 We will push an update so that the cron interval is configurable.

[imc67]

@girish this would be awesome!!!

[imc67]

@girish Today there was an app update to 1.2.2 with description: Make cron granularity 1 second

I was very curious what was changed and I discovered the cron interval is now every 2 minutes. In the app manifest (yes I've found that ) the cron is now:

"schedule": "*/1 * * * *"

This means every other minute (so every 120 seconds). Now I'm very curious what the update description means?

With these 2 minutes I'm already happy, it would be a little bit better to have it every minute: "schedule": "* * * * *"

Kind regards and keep up the good work! I'm already have some production sites in Cloudron and unmanagedWP-app and I'm very very happy with this great product!!

Kind regards,

Marcel

[girish]

@imc67 The pattern means every minute. Why do you think it means every 2 minutes? https://cronexpressiondescriptor.azurewebsites.net/?expression=%2F1++++*&locale=en

Also, for code changes, you can always track https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/wordpress-unmanaged-app

[imc67]

@girish Hi, thanks for your response, the result of the "*/1 * * * *" is:

[2019-05-31 09:10:31] - [Cron Request]- 120.29s after the previous one. | Cron called from 127.0.0.1 (?)
[2019-05-31 09:08:31] - [Cron Request]- 119.87s after the previous one. | Cron called from 127.0.0.1 (?)
[2019-05-31 09:06:31] - [Cron Request]- 120.13s after the previous one. | Cron called from 127.0.0.1 (?)
[2019-05-31 09:04:31] - [Cron Request]- 119.92s after the previous one. | Cron called from 127.0.0.1 (?)
[2019-05-31 09:02:31] - [Cron Request]- 119.97s after the previous one. | Cron called from 127.0.0.1 (?)

So all almost exactly 120 seconds interval.

As far as I know a 1 minute interval is "* * * * *" (https://crontab.guru/every-minute)

So it would be really great if this could be implemented

Kind regards,

Marcel.

[nebulon]

Apparently both patterns are equivalent, not sure why you see those exactly two minutes apart. I did a quick test locally with the same cron module and I get for both every minute. Will do a cloudron app test later.

[nebulon]

I just tested the WordPress unmanaged app regarding the currently published cron pattern and I cannot reproduce the 2 minutes interval:

10:44:09 - => Run cron job
10:44:10 - Success: Executed a total of 0 cron events.
10:45:09 - => Run cron job
10:45:10 - Success: Executed a total of 0 cron events.
10:46:09 - => Run cron job
10:46:10 - Success: Executed a total of 0 cron events.

Not sure what the difference between our two deployments are now.

[imc67]

@nebulon OMG I have to apologize!

This log is from a plugin and that has an own 2 minute schedule
I checked the app log and there is indeed a 1 minute cron call.

I'm deeply ashamed for this mistake, sorry!

Kind regards,

Marcel.

[nebulon]

No worries, at least now we know what happened.