Possible to run auto-add cron task with WHM plugin?

[electric]

Hello,

I am thinking about developing a WHM plugin, but it would need to run once every day.

Is there a way to automatically add a task to cron when "installing" a plugin?

The problem is that the target market of this plugin is newbie resellers and server owners.. and they might not be able to figure out how to add something to cron.

(ie: It's hard enough to explain how to "install" a WHM plugin.. and asking them to fiddle with cron is very difficult. Thus, I'd prefer if there is some way to automate this step?)

I hope that makes sense.

[cPanelDon]

Originally Posted by electric

I am thinking about developing a WHM plugin, but it would need to run once every day.

Is there a way to automatically add a task to cron when "installing" a plugin?

This type of action, to add a cron job or modify a crontab, may be performed by the custom script used to install the custom plug-in. To have a cron entry run just once a day, the entry could be added as a file in the following directory:

/etc/cron.daily/

[cPanelMatt]

Well, as plugins have no real unified installation method at this time there isn't a way to do this. However you could always do a touch file to check if it's run for the first time or not.


f.ex (pseudo code):

if ( !-e /var/cpanel/$yourplugin/.notfirsttime ) {
install cron
do some setup stuff
touch /var/cpanel/$yourplugin/.notfirsttime
}