Cronjob

This egg includes a container-native cron engine for automated task scheduling without requiring system cron.

How it works:

• Enable cron by setting the CRON_STATUS variable to 1 or true
• Create or edit /home/container/crontab with your scheduled tasks
• The cron engine runs automatically in the background and executes jobs at the specified times
• All execution logs are saved to /home/container/logs/cron.log
  
  

  Cron Job Examples:

  # Run every minute
  * * * * * echo "$(date): Task executed" >> /home/container/logs/task.log
  
  # Daily backup at 2 AM
  0 2 * * * tar -czf /home/container/backups/backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz /home/container/www
  
  # Clean old logs weekly (Sundays at midnight)
  0 0 * * 0 find /home/container/logs -name "*.log" -mtime +7 -delete
  
  # Laravel Scheduler (if using Laravel)
  * * * * * cd /home/container/www && /usr/bin/php artisan schedule:run >> /home/container/logs/scheduler.log 2>&1

  
  

  Notes:
  

  • Uses custom cron engine - no system cron dependency required
  • Supports command substitution like $(date) and environment variables
  • Always use absolute paths in cron commands
  • The cron engine starts automatically with the container