Can I specify a command to run once then on a schedule?

[ashleysommer]

I'm thinking of a situation where I want to run a job once when ofelia starts up, then the same job every 60 minutes after that.

Currently if I use @hourly or @every 60m, ofelia will start up and then wait 60 minutes before running the job for the first time. I want it done now then hourly.

I admit I haven't looked too deeply into the go-cron supported commands, there might be a way to specify it that I am missing.

[taraspos]

Not sure if this is currently possible, but I think a new optional parameter can be added like run-on-start. If you can send a PR would be awesome, because not sure when I have time to pick that up.

Thanks.

[ashleysommer]

Another point to make about this, is I'd like the hourly schedule to be based on when the first job is run. For example if I start the containers at 12:45, I'd like it to run once at 12:45, then schedule each hourly job for for 13:45, 14:45 etc. Rather than 12:45, 13:00, 14:00 etc. There is an inconsistency in the go-cron documentation, at one point it mentions @hourly is run every hour "at the top of the hour" which I guess means at 0 minutes. Then elsewhere in the docs it says @hourly is run every 60 minutes after the service starts. Do you know which is correct?

[Tofandel]

There is also a ton of request for this feature in the cron lib which has not yet landed

https://github.com/robfig/cron/pull/436

This is what's blocking it in ofelia