is anyone here running background processes on a schedule in a lucee container? we're using the lucee image from here: https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/docker-commandbox cron isn't available in the image, and we're trying to run a process in the background on a regular schedule that checks if email is having any issues in the container (if email isn't working in the container we can't get email alerts when something is broken, so we send a text message in that scenario separate from the CF server that's running). only problem is cron isn't present so i'm wondering how everyone else is running non-CF jobs on a regular schedule in the lucee image

RUN apt-get -y install cron

?

i tried going that route along with

service cron start

but it still didn't run any jobs after dumping scripts in

/etc/cron.d

@Eric I don't recommend using mail spooling in Docker. A docker container, by design, can spin down and go away forever at any time and you'll lose all unsent mail

it turned out that environment variables i was expecting didn't exist when cron ran. once i added them then the script ran fine. only problem now is figuring out how to run

service cron start

when the container first starts up

We've use a volume for the spool dir, so the queued mail survives if the container doesn't.