Cron trigger does not kick in

[Manivannan_V (Manivannan Venkatesan)]

Hi,

Thanks for the help so far guys. I’m stuck at another one.

I’ve set up a cron job named ‘daily’ using drone cli say with cron expression: “0 30 13 * * ?” in GMT timezone. This cron is under repository/my-project. I’ve specified the trigger in the my-project under trigger entry in .drone.yml.

But the trigger does not kick at the specified time. Any idea of what could be wrong?

If I remove the cron trigger from .drone.yml immediate push kicks off the build.

kind: pipeline
name: default

platform:
os: linux
arch: amd64

clone:
disable: true

steps:

• name: clone
  image: docker:git
  commands:

  • chmod 600 $HOME/.netrc
  • wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/e67fbf927dfdf13d0b21dc6ea15dc3c7ef448ea0/contrib/credential/netrc/git-credential-netrc.perl
  • git clone https://bitbucket.org/xx/xx
  • git -C ./xx fetch && git -C ./xx checkout ${DRONE_BRANCH}

• name: publish
  image: plugins/ecr
  settings:
  dockerfile: xx/Dockerfile
  region: us-west-2
  registry: xxxx.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
  repo: xxx.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/yy
  tags:

  • ${DRONE_BRANCH}
    environment:
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:
    from_secret: aws_access_key_id
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
    from_secret: aws_secret_access_key
    privileged: true
    volumes:
  • name: docker_socket
    path: /var/run/docker.sock

volumes:

• name: docker_socket
  host:
  path: /var/run/docker.sock

trigger:
event:

• cron
  cron:
• daily
  …

[csgitharness (CS Team)]

@manivannan_v,

Could you please confirm if you are using cloud drone or self hosted drone setup, If its self hosted drone setup please share the debug server logs for our analysis.

[Manivannan_V (Manivannan Venkatesan)]

Thanks for the response.

Sorry, I should have updated earlier. I had not given the branch name while creating a cron trigger. Once I recreated the cron with branch name it started working as I expected.