Changing the cron line

[helphi]

Changing the cron line

[helphi]

I can run it with docker 19.03.8 on Ubuntu 20.04 now, and i had test it about 3 years ago with an older docker version.

root@x:/home/x# mkdir cron.d
root@x:/home/x# echo "53 0 * * * root /usr/bin/apt-mirror > /var/spool/apt-mirror/cron.log" > cron.d/apt-mirror
root@x:/home/x# chown root:root cron.d/apt-mirror
root@x:/home/x# chmod 644 cron.d/apt-mirror
root@x:/home/x# docker run   -v $PWD/apt-mirror:/var/spool/apt-mirror   -v $PWD/cron.d:/etc/cron.d   helphi/apt-mirror:xenial

x@x:~$ ls apt-mirror/
cron.log  mirror  skel  var
x@x:~$ cat apt-mirror/cron.log 
Downloading 162 index files using 20 threads...
Begin time: Fri Jul 17 00:53:01 2020
[20]... [19]... [18]... [17]... [16]... [15]... [14]... [13]... [12]... [11]... [10]... [9]... [8]... [7]... [6]... [5]... 

I found that you did not use root user to run the apt-mirror command, maybe Synology NAS don't allow root user to run the cron -f command. So you may need to change the Dockerfile to let a regular user to run cron -f, and then build your own docker image.

[haydonryan]

Oh awesome :)

Looks like the apt-mirror code itself has some major flaws too which is a bit disappointing, but understandable if things act differently.