docker compose install vs crontab for scheduled jobs

[nmincone]

I've spent over 3 hours trying to understand where I went wrong setting up crontab. All my jobs were working before but are no longer. I'm thinking of starting from the beginning.

I installed via docker compose. Navigated to Administration>Scheduled Jobs.

Now this is where I get stuck. Another user who was assisting me with this issue on github stated that if I install via docker there is nothing further to do.
Under scheduled jobs I am instructed to copy and paste this...

Note: Add this line to the crontab file to run Espo Scheduled Jobs:
* * * * * cd /var/www/html; /usr/local/bin/php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Do I need to?

And if so which crontab on my docker host, the one in /etc or right inside the directory where the docker compose file is?

Very confused and would appreciate any help that can be provided.

If I follow the instructions here it runs manually.

[victor]

If you created the docker-compose.yml file according to these instructions https://docs.espocrm.com/administrat...docker-compose, then after installing EspoCRM, you do not need to configure Cron separately, since there is already a Daemon there, which is an alternative to Cron.

  espocrm-daemon:
    image: espocrm/espocrm
    container_name: espocrm-daemon
    volumes:
      - espocrm:/var/www/html
    restart: always
    entrypoint: docker-daemon.sh

More details about Daemon and Cron: https://docs.espocrm.com/administrat...bs/#setting-up.

[nmincone]

Hi Victor, appreciate your reply! That clarifies it. So it was working for a few days and then stopped. Could it be permissions that is preventiing it from executing?

-rw-r--r-- 1 nmincone nmincone 1803 Aug 8 22:16 docker-compose.yml
drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 25 08:20 espocrm
drwxr-xr-x 6 999 systemd-journal 4096 Aug 11 07:30 espocrm-db

I see this in my logs;
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation
espocrm-daemon | Instance is not ready: waiting for the installation

[nmincone]

Wow do I feel like a fool. I resolved it. In my compose file I missed that the volume location for the daemon mount was wrong. Adding "./" in front of

volumes: - espocrm:/var/www/html

=

volumes:- ./espocrm:/var/www/html

fixed it!

[jamie]

amazing what 2 chars will do