Running cronjobs in Azure App Service Linux

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To schedule a cronjob on azure app service Linux web application you can follow the steps outlined below,

 

 

 

Navigate to “SSH” from azure app services portal and click on Go ->

 

 

 

 

Create a script file in /home with name as start.sh and add the below lines to the script file and save the file.

 

Command to create a script file - touch /home/start.sh

 

Open the file using vim editor: vi /home/start.sh and copy the below code

 

 

# Installing cron

apt-get update -qq && apt-get install cron -yqq

# Starting cron

service cron start

#cron scheduler

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "* * * * * find /home/BackupLogs -type f -size 1k -delete ")|crontab

 

 

Post that, you can add the created script as a startup command which would install the cron, start the cron and schedule the cron during startup. To add as a startup command, navigate to Azure portal -> Configuration blade -> General settings tab and provide as below,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the above sample code, it checks for all the files with size 1KB in /home/BackupLogs and delete them for every minute.

 

 

 

Based on your convenience you can adjust the CRON scheduler time and command

 

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