Just some cron adjustments that may or may not help your #friendica instance;

# --- Friendica Automation Suite ---
MAILTO="[email protected]"
SHELL="/bin/bash"

# Core background tasks
0 */1 * * * /home/USER/friendica_cron.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
*/15 * * * * cd /home/USER/public_html; bin/console worker >/dev/null 2>&1

# Maintenance: Monthly Smarty purge (1st of the month)
0 0 1 * * /usr/bin/rm -rf /home/USER/public_html/view/smarty/compile/* >/dev/null 2>&1

# Maintenance: Weekly Storage & Cache clearing (Sundays)
0 1 * * 0 cd /home/USER/public_html; bin/console storage clear >/dev/null 2>&1
30 1 * * 0 cd /home/USER/public_html; bin/console cache clear >/dev/null 2>&1

# Watchdogs: StayAlive & Bouncer
@reboot /bin/bash /home/USER/scripts/StayAlive.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &
0 * * * * pgrep -f StayAlive.sh > /dev/null || /bin/bash /home/USER/scripts/StayAlive.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &

@reboot /bin/bash /home/USER/scripts/bouncer.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &
* * * * * pgrep -f bouncer.sh > /dev/null || /bin/bash /home/USER/scripts/bouncer.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &

README

⚙️ The Friendica Automation Suite (Crontab)
Scheduled Maintenance & Self-Healing Guards
This configuration file acts as the "Brain" of your Friendica instance. It manages the scheduling for background tasks, periodic cache cleaning, and—most importantly—ensures your custom stability scripts (Bouncer and StayAlive) never stop running.

⚠️ Implementation Note: Replace YOUR_HOME, YOUR_USER, and YOUR_INSTANCE_ROOT with your actual server paths.

These Crons are provided "as-is" for educational and personal use.

They will not be maintained or updated.

No support or bug fixes will be provided.

Use at your own risk..

🛠 What This Schedule Manages
1. Core Background Tasks
Hourly Maintenance: Runs friendica_cron.sh to handle general background cleanup.

Frequent Worker: Executes the Friendica worker every 15 minutes to keep the federation queue moving.

2. Housekeeping & Performance
To prevent disk bloat and keep the interface snappy, the following cleanup tasks are automated:

Monthly Smarty Purge: Clears compiled template files on the 1st of every month to refresh the UI engine.

Weekly Storage Cleanup: Clears the avatar and storage cache every Sunday at 1:00 AM.

Weekly Node Cache: Flushes the node cache every Sunday at 1:30 AM to keep remote directory info fresh.

3. The "Immortal" Guard System
The most critical part of this setup is the Watchdog for the Watchdogs.

Boot Persistence: Both the StayAlive.sh (Service Guard) and bouncer.sh (Resource Throttle) are set to trigger immediately upon a server reboot (@reboot).

The Safety Check: Every hour (for StayAlive) and every minute (for the Bouncer), the system checks if the scripts are still running. If they’ve been killed by the system, it automatically restarts them.

📋 Installation
To apply these rules to your server:

Open your crontab editor:

Bash
crontab -e
Paste the configuration, ensuring your paths are correct.

Save and exit.

🔍 Pro-Tip: Monitoring
You have MAILTO set at the top. If your server is configured for mail, any errors from these tasks will be sent directly to your inbox. If you prefer to log to a file instead, you can change the >/dev/null 2>&1 at the end of the lines to >> ~/cron_log.txt 2>&1.

⚖️ License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2026 pasjrwoctx👽 (Philip A. Swiderski Jr.)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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