Cron supervisord

cron_supervisord.ini

[supervisord]
nodaemon=true
loglevel=debug

[program:amon]
command=gunicorn -c gunicorn.conf.py wsgi
directory=/amon
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=true 
stopsignal = QUIT

[program:cron]
command = cron -f -L 15
autostart=true
autorestart=true

gistfile1.dockerfile

FROM martinrusev/amon:latest

COPY requirements.txt /var/requirements.txt
RUN pip install  -r /var/requirements.txt

COPY crontab.txt /var/crontab.txt
RUN crontab /var/crontab.txt
RUN chmod 600 /etc/crontab

COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisord.conf

EXPOSE  8000
CMD ["/usr/local/bin/supervisord"]

can I use this to start my apache2 after the cron start ? I tested and my apache works but cron runs as a daemon but my actual cron jobs are not invoking.

Hi,
Can you please explain what are -f & -L options, as I cannot find this in cron's help

[program:cron]
command = cron -f -L 15

Regards,
Kavya K

$ man cron | cat
CRON(8)                                        System Manager's Manual                                        CRON(8)

NAME
       cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)

SYNOPSIS
       cron [-f] [-l] [-L loglevel]

DESCRIPTION
       cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering multi-user runlevels.

OPTIONS
       -f      Stay in foreground mode, don't daemonize.

       -l      Enable  LSB  compliant names for /etc/cron.d files. This setting, however, does not affect the parsing
               of files under /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly or /etc/cron.monthly.

       -n      Include the FQDN in the subject when sending mails. By default, cron will abbreviate the hostname.

       -L loglevel
               Tell cron what to log about jobs (errors are logged regardless of this value) as the sum of  the  fol‐
               lowing values:

                   1      will log the start of all cron jobs

                   2      will log the end of all cron jobs

                   4      will log all failed jobs (exit status != 0)

                   8      will log the process number of all cron jobs

               The  default  is  to  log the start of all jobs (1). Logging will be disabled if levels is set to zero
               (0). A value of fifteen (15) will select all options.

Great, thks, it hep me a lot. Already have my cron working.... but would like to understand.....Why can not crond be daemonized ?

If you daemonize cron, supervisord will take that as an exit and repeatedly try to "restart" the process.

@agorostidi as far as I know, supervisord only manages non-daemon processes. For example, if you want to use supervisord to manage Nginx, you have to modify the nginx configuration, and turn off the daemon option.

But in this example supervisord will be running and not giving me a shell when I satrt the docker image, I also want the shell and want supervisord to run in the bg?

@gerroon if you need a shell in your container, i presume to make changes, you can run docker exec -ti <repo> sh. Or do you want supervisor to spawn a shell for you?