Periodic LDAP-Sync with Cron

QuimaxW

This may be a newb question, but I want to ask anyways.

The knowledgebase walks through ldap sync and getting that connection working. That's fine. It's working.

Using the example command:

sudo -u www-data php console.php ldap-sync --user admin --password admin --tenantId 1 --verbose --ldapServerId 1

Everything syncs fine.

To do this periodically, it needs to go into cron.

Do I just put the above command into /etc/cron.d/i-doit ? Like this?

5 5 * * *   www-data    test -x /usr/local/bin/idoit-jobs && /usr/bin/chronic /usr/local/bin/idoit-jobs
4 5 * * * www-data php console.php ldap-sync --user admin --password admin --tenantId 1 --verbose --ldapServerId 1

Or is there another better way to do that or to put the command so that it will sync ldap on a regular basis?

MartinV

We simply added the ldap-sync call to the list of jobs in /usr/local/bin/idoit-jobs, e.g. in the function execute

log "LDAP sync"
eval "${prefix}${CONSOLE_BIN} ldap-sync --verbose --ldapServerId=1 $suffix" || \
        abort "Command 'ldap-sync' failed"

The missing parameters to ldap-sync in the aboce command are taken from the $suffix variable.