Run nightly tasks on a random minute after 03:00 to avoid overload (#1754)
- The MIAB version check regularly fails at 03:00, presumably because a large portion of installations is checking mailinabox.email at the same time. - At installation time, the time of the nightly clock is configured to run at a random minute after 03:00, but before 04:00. - Users might expect the nightly tasks to be over at a certain time and run their own custom tasks afterwards. This could thus interfere with custom backup routines. - This breaks reproducibility of the installation process. - Users might also be surprised by the nightly task time changing after updating MIAB.
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* Nightly backups now occur on a random minute in the 3am hour (in the system time zone). The minute is chosen during Mail-in-a-Box installation/upgrade and remains the same until the next upgrade.
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* Fix for mail log statistics report on leap days.
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* Fix Mozilla autoconfig useGlobalPreferredServer setting.
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@ -101,10 +101,11 @@ hide_output systemctl enable mailinabox.service
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# Perform nightly tasks at 3am in system time: take a backup, run
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# status checks and email the administrator any changes.
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minute=$((RANDOM % 60)) # avoid overloading mailinabox.email
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cat > /etc/cron.d/mailinabox-nightly << EOF;
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# Mail-in-a-Box --- Do not edit / will be overwritten on update.
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# Run nightly tasks: backup, status checks.
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0 3 * * * root (cd `pwd` && management/daily_tasks.sh)
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$minute 3 * * * root (cd `pwd` && management/daily_tasks.sh)
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EOF
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# Start the management server.
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