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AutoPhing Cron

Adding Cron files to your system environment

Usage

The cron targets adds/deletes cron files to the server crontab. It's possible to specify different cron files per application and environment. These are used in the filenames. A cron filename in the cron.files directory should look like:

appname-environment-filename

Example:

autophing-production-mycron

Targets

cron-deploy

Execute target cron-delete-files and cron-copy-files

cron-copy-files

Copy the project cron files to the cron folder to be executed by the cron program

cron-delete-files

Delete all old cron files from the cron folder

cron-start

Start the cron program

cron-stop

Stop the cron program

cron-restart

Restart the cron program

Configuration

  • cron.files - Location where the project cron files are
  • cron.location - Location on the server where the project cron files should be placed
  • cron.program - The cron program location
  • cron.sudo - Boolean. Run as sudo. (default false)

Global configuration

The cron targets use some global project properties to know which cron files should be copied/deleted.

  • project.app - Name of the project application
  • project.environment - Environment the project is running (production/staging/testing/development/etc)

Dependencies

A Cron program installed on the server

Sudocron

Some servers require the root user to manage files in the /etc/cron.d directories (depending on OS). When using the cron.sudo option some targets will execute the "sudo" command. To prevent the sudo command from asking password, you could edit the sudoers file (use visudo for this) to support certain commands;

deployusername ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/rm /etc/cron.d/*
deployusername ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/cp /deploy/folder/root/* /etc/cron.d/*

This allows the rm and cp commands into the right directories. Please note that this wildcard still allows for "../" to be filled in and potentially creating a security risk, but we're not covering that here.