Cloudron makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server. Find out more or install now.


Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Bookmarks
  • Search
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Brand Logo

Cloudron Forum

Apps | Demo | Docs | Install
  1. Cloudron Forum
  2. Support
  3. How to add a cronjob in cloudron

How to add a cronjob in cloudron

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Solved Support
cron
6 Posts 4 Posters 1.1k Views 4 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • S Offline
    S Offline
    sarthak.narayan
    wrote on last edited by girish
    #1

    Hi,

    When I try to add a cronjob using the command

    echo "0 22 * * * curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/refresh_webhook >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1" | crontab -
    

    I get the error /var/spool/cron/: mkstemp: Read-only file system.
    How can I add a cronjob inside the container in cloudron?

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
    • KubernetesK Offline
      KubernetesK Offline
      Kubernetes
      App Dev
      wrote on last edited by Kubernetes
      #2

      You can configure a cronjob in the "Container" (or better App) Settings in Cloudron

      Look here -> https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#cron

      1 Reply Last reply
      4
      • nebulonN nebulon marked this topic as a question on
      • S Offline
        S Offline
        sarthak.narayan
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        I added it here and then saved it. I restarted the app but I cannot see my cronjob when I use crontab -l.

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • nebulonN Offline
          nebulonN Offline
          nebulon
          Staff
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          Cloudron is not using cron from the system (eg. crond) but has a scheduler built into the main controller process.
          Also those cron jobs are run via docker from the host in a subcontainer of the app.

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • girishG Offline
            girishG Offline
            girish
            Staff
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            You can put something like * * * * * echo "=> Running cron" && your_command . Then, you will see the echo in the app logs.

            1 Reply Last reply
            2
            • S Offline
              S Offline
              sarthak.narayan
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              Got it thanks.

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • nebulonN nebulon has marked this topic as solved on
              Reply
              • Reply as topic
              Log in to reply
              • Oldest to Newest
              • Newest to Oldest
              • Most Votes


              • Login

              • Don't have an account? Register

              • Login or register to search.
              • First post
                Last post
              0
              • Categories
              • Recent
              • Tags
              • Popular
              • Bookmarks
              • Search