Starting webhook in headless environment doesn't run

[msubby23]

So while I have years of linux experience, I can't for the life of me get the webhook service to run via a cronjob. I've got an additional cronjob which checks to see if the process is still running, and I have a bash script to start it up again, but for whatever reason I can't debug, the webhook executable will not start. If I run the same script while in the shell, it starts and usually stays up for days, until it gets overrun with requests and dies. So at the moment, I got my cronjob watcher script send me a slack message whenever the process dies and then I log into my shell and start the webhook manually, but ideally it just restarts when it dies via my script.

I'm running in Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS with webhook 2.8.0
I run it using the following parameters so unless something can't start headless (no permission issue since everything can start if run manually):
/usr/bin/webhook -hooks /home/dev/crm/hooks.json -port 9001 -key /home/dev/crm/privkey.pem -verbose -secure -logfile /home/dev/crm/webhook.log

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Mat

[moorereason]

Starting services from a cron job sounds less than ideal. Are you not using a service manager like systemd?

Any cron logs? What user is running the cron job?

[msubby23]

So after looking at this: https://gist.github.com/ragul28/6e5fc9ba7d1adbe761b8643b2a22a1a8 and with some modifications to the ExecStart to add in my custom parameters, it now seems to be running. It seems I was missing either a few settings in my webhook.service file or I needed to add -ip 0.0.0.0 because now it seems to work and when I kill it manually, it restarts immediately which is what I needed since on heavy loads, the process dies (either a panic) or bad payload. Thanks for insisting on systemd again as I was down that track earlier but would always die.