Docker Service CRON Restart?

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Unfortunately that’s not what Railway’s cron jobs are built for. What you can do though is set up a function in your code that quits your program according to a cron schedule and set your service to restart after quitting in Railway settings

I've made a template for the exact functionality you would like, but it's not quite ready for public release, would you like me to share it when it's ready?

@Brody that would be awesome thank you very much!

so just to be clear, you just wanna restart your service on a cron schedule?
just the same as clicking the 3 dot menu on the deployment and clicking restart?

@Brody Correct

gotcha, i just need a good template icon at this point lol
I'm not joking, I have no idea what to use as the icon, got any ideas?

so what exactly is the template? is it generic template that will restart any service/project? Or only certain types i.e. docker, node etc?
maybe like an hour glass figure?

it can restart any railway service, doesnt matter what the service is

i kinda like the hour glass figure but idk?

ill see what i come up with, thanks!

@Brody I am also interested - was looking for this exact functionality a few weeks ago

ill keep you both posted

Amazing thank you! Will give it a shot

let me know if there are any difficulties

just set it up now on my project. I have a schedule to restart my service at 12am AEST (roughly 7 hours from now).

Will let you know how it goes

awesome, how easy was the setup?

Very easy but i had no idea bookmarlets was a thing lol 😂

also, I don't know if I mentioned it in the readme, but the services cron schedule runs on UTC time

oh gotcha makes sense. Will cater for that

even railways native cron is utc
you can just edit the cron expression in the variable and let the service redeploy

sweet thanks
fixed it up now, 0 12 * * * should be 12am AEST

possibly, I don't actually know how to read a cron expression lol

neither lol, im relying on chat gpt 😄

but you'll get an error message in the deployment logs if the cron expression is invalid

that's a calendar?
did someone ping me?

@Brody looks to be working!

Thanks heaps for that template

no problem, and if you run into any issues, let me know