/dev/null * * It wakes once a minute, works out which jobs are due, and runs them. The jobs themselves * are listed in includes/cron_jobs.php; when and whether each one runs is held in the * cron_jobs table and edited from Settings > Cron. * * WHAT THE JOBS INHERIT * * Jobs are require'd into this process, so config.php, the timezone and functions.php are * already loaded by the time a job's own require_once lines run and those lines become * no-ops. That is fine for the bootstrap, which is what every job needs anyway, but it * means two things for job code: * * - A job must end itself with cronJobStop(), never exit(). exit() ends the whole cycle * and every job after it in the list. * - Jobs share one global scope. A job must set the variables it reads rather than * assuming the state a fresh process would have given it. * * SCHEDULING * * Due-ness is tracked in the cron_jobs table rather than by matching the clock, so a job * whose minute was missed - machine down, previous run still going, dispatch running a * second or two late - runs at the next opportunity instead of being skipped for the day. * A job is claimed before it runs, not after, so a run that dies half way through is not * repeated: nightly_tasks generates invoices and charges cards. * * Each job is also locked individually for the length of its own run, so a long job (the * nightly run, a slow mailbox) never holds up the every-minute jobs - the next minute's * dispatch picks those up in a second process while the long one is still going. */ // Set working directory to the directory this cron script lives at. chdir(dirname(__FILE__)); // Ensure we're running from command line if (php_sapi_name() !== 'cli') { die("This script must be run from the command line.\n"); } // Tells cron/includes/cron_lock.php and the jobs themselves that they are running under the // dispatcher rather than being executed directly. Must be defined before anything else // is loaded. define('ITFLOW_CRON_DISPATCHER', true); require_once "includes/cron_lock.php"; require_once "../config.php"; // Set Timezone require_once "../includes/inc_set_timezone.php"; require_once "../functions.php"; require_once "../includes/cron_jobs.php"; /* * Claim a job if it is due. The UPDATE is the claim: two dispatchers racing for the same * job both run it against the same row and the loser matches nothing, which also holds * across two web servers sharing one database, where the file lock would not. The same * statement consumes a Run Now request, so a button press can only ever produce one run. * * Every comparison is made against PHP's clock, not the database's, so the schedule follows * the timezone ITFlow is configured for however the database server is set up. */ function cronJobClaim($mysqli, array $job): bool { $name = escapeSql($job['name']); $now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // Register the job the first time it is seen, seeded with the schedule it ships with. // From here on the row is what runs - Settings > Cron writes to it. $default_schedule = escapeSql($job['schedule']); $default_interval = intval($job['interval_minutes'] ?? 1); $default_daily_at = isset($job['daily_at']) ? "'" . escapeSql($job['daily_at']) . ":00'" : 'NULL'; $default_enabled = isset($job['enabled']) ? intval($job['enabled']) : 1; mysqli_query($mysqli, "INSERT IGNORE INTO cron_jobs SET cron_job_name = '$name', cron_job_enabled = $default_enabled, cron_job_schedule = '$default_schedule', cron_job_interval_minutes = $default_interval, cron_job_daily_at = $default_daily_at"); $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc(mysqli_query($mysqli, "SELECT * FROM cron_jobs WHERE cron_job_name = '$name' LIMIT 1")); if (!$row) { return false; } // A Run Now request runs the job whatever its schedule says, and whether or not it is // enabled - turning the schedule off and running it by hand is a legitimate way to work. $due_clause = "cron_job_run_now = 1"; if (!empty($row['cron_job_enabled'])) { if ($row['cron_job_schedule'] === 'Daily') { // Due once the most recent scheduled time has passed, unless we already ran since // it. Before today's time, that most recent occurrence was yesterday's - without // this, a dispatcher only invoked before the scheduled time (the old single // "0 2 * * * cron.php" crontab line against a 03:00 job) would never find the job // due and it would silently never run again. $threshold = date('Y-m-d') . ' ' . substr((string)$row['cron_job_daily_at'], 0, 5) . ':00'; if ($now < $threshold) { $threshold = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 day')) . ' ' . substr((string)$row['cron_job_daily_at'], 0, 5) . ':00'; } $scheduled = true; } else { // Interval jobs get 30 seconds of slack. cron fires on the minute but a run can // start a second or two late, and an exact n-minute comparison would then find the // job 'not due yet' and skip every other cycle. $interval = max(1, intval($row['cron_job_interval_minutes'])); // A job the registry marks interval-unsafe never runs more often than daily, // whatever its row says - a leftover row from before the schedule was locked // must not revive the every-minute failure. See includes/cron_jobs.php. if (($job['interval_safe'] ?? true) === false) { $interval = max($interval, 1440); } $threshold = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() - (($interval * 60) - 30)); $scheduled = true; } if ($scheduled) { $threshold = escapeSql($threshold); $due_clause .= " OR (cron_job_enabled = 1 AND (cron_job_last_run_at IS NULL OR cron_job_last_run_at < '$threshold'))"; } } mysqli_query($mysqli, "UPDATE cron_jobs SET cron_job_last_run_at = '$now', cron_job_last_status = 'Running', cron_job_run_now = 0 WHERE cron_job_name = '$name' AND ($due_clause)"); return mysqli_affected_rows($mysqli) === 1; } /* * Record how a job ended. The status is the outcome of the run that just happened; the error * is sticky and survives later successes, because the run that failed is usually long gone by * the time anyone goes looking. Settings > Cron clears it. */ function cronJobFinished($mysqli, string $job_name, string $status, ?float $duration = null, ?string $error = null): void { $name = escapeSql($job_name); $status = escapeSql(substr($status, 0, 200)); $finished_at = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $duration_sql = $duration === null ? 'NULL' : "'" . number_format($duration, 2, '.', '') . "'"; $error_sql = ''; if ($error !== null) { $error_text = escapeSql(substr($error, 0, 1000)); $error_sql = ", cron_job_last_error = '$error_text', cron_job_last_error_at = '$finished_at'"; } // This is the failure path. A job that killed the database connection - a long backup // whose idle connection was closed, a server restart mid-cycle - must not have its // bookkeeping throw on top, or an uncaught mysqli_sql_exception ends the dispatch and // no record of the original failure survives anywhere. if (function_exists('backupDbEnsure')) { $mysqli = backupDbEnsure($mysqli); } try { mysqli_query($mysqli, "UPDATE cron_jobs SET cron_job_last_finished_at = '$finished_at', cron_job_last_status = '$status', cron_job_last_duration = $duration_sql $error_sql WHERE cron_job_name = '$name'"); } catch (Throwable $e) { echo "Cron: could not record the outcome of '$job_name' - " . $e->getMessage() . "\n"; } } // Proof the crontab is firing, recorded before any job runs. Settings > Cron reads it to tell // "no job was due" apart from "nothing has run this since the server was rebuilt". mysqli_query($mysqli, "UPDATE settings SET config_cron_last_dispatch_at = '" . date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "' WHERE company_id = 1"); // A fatal error inside a job cannot be caught, and it takes the rest of the cycle with it. // Recording which job was running at the time is the only trace of that left behind. $cron_dispatch_running = null; $cron_dispatch_started = null; register_shutdown_function(function () use (&$cron_dispatch_running, &$cron_dispatch_started, $mysqli) { if ($cron_dispatch_running === null) { return; } $error = error_get_last(); $reason = $error['message'] ?? 'ended unexpectedly'; $duration = $cron_dispatch_started === null ? null : microtime(true) - $cron_dispatch_started; cronJobFinished($mysqli, $cron_dispatch_running, 'Failed', $duration, $reason); }); foreach (cronJobRegistry() as $cron_dispatch_job) { $cron_dispatch_path = realpath(__DIR__ . '/' . $cron_dispatch_job['script']); if ($cron_dispatch_path === false) { // A job listed in the registry with no script behind it is a mistake worth hearing about echo "Cron: job '{$cron_dispatch_job['name']}' points at {$cron_dispatch_job['script']}, which does not exist.\n"; continue; } // Locked before the schedule is consulted: if the previous run of this job is still // going there is nothing to decide, and its claim already stands. $cron_dispatch_lock = cronLockAcquire($cron_dispatch_path); if ($cron_dispatch_lock === false) { continue; } if (!cronJobClaim($mysqli, $cron_dispatch_job)) { cronLockRelease($cron_dispatch_lock); continue; } $cron_dispatch_running = $cron_dispatch_job['name']; $cron_dispatch_started = microtime(true); try { require_once $cron_dispatch_path; cronJobFinished($mysqli, $cron_dispatch_job['name'], 'Completed', microtime(true) - $cron_dispatch_started); } catch (CronJobStopped $e) { // The job ended itself early - disabled in settings, nothing configured, nothing to do $reason = $e->getMessage(); cronJobFinished($mysqli, $cron_dispatch_job['name'], $reason === '' ? 'Stopped' : "Stopped: $reason", microtime(true) - $cron_dispatch_started); } catch (Throwable $e) { // One job throwing is not a reason to skip the rest of the cycle echo "Cron: job '{$cron_dispatch_job['name']}' failed - " . $e->getMessage() . "\n"; try { logApp("Cron", "error", "Cron job {$cron_dispatch_job['name']} failed: " . $e->getMessage()); } catch (Throwable $log_e) { // Logging the failure must never become a second, fatal failure } cronJobFinished($mysqli, $cron_dispatch_job['name'], 'Failed', microtime(true) - $cron_dispatch_started, $e->getMessage()); } $cron_dispatch_running = null; $cron_dispatch_started = null; cronLockRelease($cron_dispatch_lock); }