[FEAT] No cronjob configured for periodic tasks

[adhawkins]

Is this a new feature request?

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Wanted change

Add a cronjob entry to run the periodic tasks as configured in the software.

The recommended entry is:

* /5 * * * /usr/bin/php /app/www/public/cron.php key=<securitykey> >/dev/null

The security key is configured in the database, so would ideally need to be updated automatically should this change.

Reason for change

Without this, the 'universal-cron' mod is required to be installed and configured by the end user.

Proposed code change

No response

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[drizuid]

i don't use projectsend, but it SOUNDS like scheduled jobs are an optional feature, in which case using the mod sounds appropriate.
initial discussion here: https://discord.com/channels/354974912613449730/1372219982112624861

[adhawkins]

As I understand it, unless the cron jobs run, then file shares won't expire and be deleted. That sounds pretty fundamental to me?

[drizuid]

that does make sense, it's just very odd that with the hundreds of users over 6+ years using this container, it's the first time it's come up if it's a critical requirement. I assigned this to spad, as the maintainer of this container to determine the appropriate path. Again, I dont use this application (and never have) so your input like above is very good to have, thank you!

[thespad]

There's no practical way to get the secret key at container init, so I'm just going to rig up a mini version of the cron mod so that users can drop the supplied cron command into /config/crontabs/abc and have it picked up.

I should note the project send docs around this are shit.