From 309a63f0ffc59fbadfecbc6c2740fa13ae8e6b4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcel Clausen <marcel.clausen@swisstopo.ch>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 21:23:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make sure that the cron service is running. a under certain
 circumstances

the cron service is in an unstable state after the initial load. in this
case it is sufficient to reload the crontab configuration.
---
 scripts/checker.sh | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checker.sh b/scripts/checker.sh
index 53a2a6d..6fd121c 100755
--- a/scripts/checker.sh
+++ b/scripts/checker.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ MAX_AGE=300 # max age in seconds should be the same interval as the cron setting
 # check if index sync status file exists
 if [[ ! -f "${LAST_SYNC}" ]]; then
     echo "index sync status file does not exist ${LAST_SYNC}"
+    # reload cron / restart in case it has not been activated correctly during initial container start
+    envsubst < docker-crontab | crontab
     exit 1
 fi