Crontab not cleared

[Claudio Poli]

Hello,
I'm using whenever along with capistrano.

This is what I see:

* executing `whenever:clear_crontab'
* executing "cd /var/www/mysite/releases/20101220224932 && bundle
exec whenever --clear-crontab --load-file config/cron/production.rb"

[...]

* executing `whenever:update_crontab'
* executing "cd /var/www/mysite/current && bundle exec whenever --
update-crontab --load-file config/cron/production.rb"

The problem is that the --update-crontab appends data to my cron,
while --clear-crontab doesn't really clean it.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Javan Makhmali]

Does your deploy.rb set an application variable like `set :application, "my_app"`?

Javan

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[Claudio Poli]

Hello,
yes it does.

We use capistrano multi staging, relevant bits:

# deploy.rb
require 'whenever/capistrano'
set(:application, "myapp")
# Whenever variables for capistrano recipe.
# The file to load is defined in respective stages.
set(:whenever_roles, :db)
set(:whenever_command, 'bundle exec whenever')

# deploy/production.rb
set(:whenever_identifier, "-f config/cron/production.rb")

Thanks.

[Javan Makhmali]

I see the problem I think. Whenever needs a string to identify each set of cron jobs with and with your use of "-f config/cron/production.rb" leaves that string blank and just sets the file to load.

Maybe do something like this in each stage's file.

#deploy/production.rb
set(:whenever_identifier, "#{application}_production -f config/cron/production.rb")

Javan

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