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Setting a specific time to run ss-install-wordpress-mu-plugins script #76

Closed corzel closed 2 years ago

corzel commented 4 years ago

Hello!

I want to ask for add an option to set a specific time to run the mu-plugins script.

Right now, on my server this is running at 1:14 PM. and it takes less than a minute to complete the process, but during these seconds the site becomes inaccessible. So I prefer to change this to run after midnight when there are no visitors.

Regards.

jessuppi commented 3 years ago

Hello thanks for your feedback @corzel

I think this touches on a bigger question of timing not just ss-install-wordpress-mu-plugins but really any ss core bash script since this issue could probably apply to any ss core cron jobs...

Really, I don't see how we could adjust the specific time of a certain cron job(s). It would get messy fast, as soon as we stray away from hardcoding the root crontab. It is the one file that truly should be 100% harcoded.

Perhaps a temporary solution would be changing the server timezone, e.g. SS_TIMEZONE option in ss-config... however I'd much rather figure out a way to avoid such outages.

jessuppi commented 2 years ago

A few updates on this:

We changed ss-install-wordpress-mu-plugins to only run every few days now, instead of daily. Keep in mind that (for now at least) you can also adjust the intervals of scripts in your ss-config file too.

Also, SlickStack has greatly reduced the number of MU plugins installed by default, so there's a lot less bloat.

I'm still not sure how we could reliably enable users to choose the time they want for a specific script to run, since the root crontab is hardcoded to only run our cron files under /var/www/crons/ ...

Ref: https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/crons/00-crontab.txt

I think for now we are just going to have to close this as a "wontfix" feature request, and prioritize making everything in SlickStack run a smoothly as possible so that this isn't even an issue going forward hopefully.