Crontab issue on Windows host machine

[psolom]

I use Windows as a host machine for laradock application.

The issue I faced is that cron is sensitive to line endings in crontab files. You can see ^M when run cat -v /etc/cron.d/laradock character in case of DOS-like endings. Cron won't run such files. To solve the issue I have replaced the following lines of workspace\Dockerfile-{version} dockerfile(s):

#####################################
# Crontab
#####################################
USER root

COPY ./crontab /etc/cron.d
RUN chmod -R 644 /etc/cron.d

to

#####################################
# Crontab
#####################################
USER root

COPY ./crontab /etc/cron.d
RUN chmod -R 644 /etc/cron.d

# convert line endings from DOS to UNIX format
RUN apt-get update -yqq && \
    apt-get install dos2unix && \
    find /etc/cron.d -type f -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix

The dos2unix utility converts all DOS-like line endings to UNIX format. This can prevent implicit cron errors if you use Windows OS and save you time. May be included into the main package if you will find this useful.

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