cron_restart is not working after a server reboot

[creativityjuice]

Hi there,

Thanks for your work on pm2 !

It is kind of annoying that processes with a cron_restart are not launching on specified date after a server reboot. Is there a way to setup the startup script to fix that behavior ?
It is also the case with pm2 resurrect. So it's quite easy to test :

1. pm2 restart MY_PROC --cron-restart="*/2 * * * *"
2. pm2 stop MY_PROC
3. pm2 save
4. pm2 kill
5. pm2 resurrect

MY_PROC won't restart on the next even minute.

OS Version : Ubuntu 18.04
PM2 Version : 5.2.0

--- PM2 report ----------------------------------------------------------------
Date : Mon Sep 12 2022 11:02:50 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)

--- Daemon -------------------------------------------------
pm2d version : 5.2.0
node version : 16.15.1
node path : not found
argv : /usr/bin/node,/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Daemon.js
argv0 : node
user : nodejs
uid : 1001
gid : 33
uptime : 15083min

--- CLI ----------------------------------------------------
local pm2 : 5.2.0
node version : 16.15.1
node path : /usr/bin/pm2
argv : /usr/bin/node,/usr/bin/pm2,report
argv0 : node
user : nodejs
uid : 1001
gid : 33

--- System info --------------------------------------------
arch : x64
platform : linux
type : Linux
cpus : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
cpus nb : 14
freemem : 12365615104
totalmem : 16815984640
home : /home/nodejs

[creativityjuice]

Someone seams to have the same problem there : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72861927/activating-cron-restarts-on-pm2-after-reboot

Cheers,

[followfung]

I'm running into this this issue too.
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04, PM2 v5.2.0

[christopherseaman]

Same issue (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, PM2 5.3.0)

Manually patched from arronzhang's commit (one-liner!) and rebooted, it seems to have worked! ✅

Can't wait to see this make it into release, so this doesn't catch others who might not even realize cron restart policies aren't applying on reboot.