amaelh/rpi-cron repository overview

⁠rpi-cron

Simple CRON image based on hypriot/rpi-cron-example

⁠General Usage

Minimal debian image to schedule scripts in a docker image. This image is intented to be used with docker-compose.

Requirement : mount a volume on /etc/cron.d

• The host folder as well as it's contents have to be owned by root:root with no write access to group nor others.
• Each script inside the host folder has to be executable (a+x)

⁠Examples

Example crontab file :

#
# Every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * root bash /scripts/update_duck_dns.sh >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1

Example docker-compose file :

version: "2.0"

services:

  cron:
    image: amaelh/rpi-cron
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - "./conf/crontab:/etc/cron.d"
      - "./scripts/:/scripts"