Two users, recurring transactions are duplicated (cron)

[thehijacker]

Me an my wife are both using Firefly III. And we both have recurring transactions but they are always inserted twice. I am also calling the cron job from crontab once per day, but for two different tokens. One from her and one from me. Like this:

0 3 * * * curl https://domain.com/api/v1/cron/4b8f95edd9c1a2156f22cbdyy
0 3 * * * curl https://domain.com/api/v1/cron/72c15b0d2e27cefa25e2cccexx

Is this causing duplicated transactions?

Should I call this cron job only once and it will handle recurring transactions for both of us?

Thanks.

[JC5]

Hey, thanks for starting a discussion.

The cron job will handle the recurring transactions for both of you. I'll check the code and i see if this isn't a bug.

[thehijacker]

One cron call should handle both using either token? I am using the command line token in URL from my and wifes profile.

[JC5]

One cron call will handle all users, good point. I will also add this to the documentation.

[thehijacker]

Sorry. But it is still unclear to me. In documentation it says:

You can also use a tool called cURL.

# cron job for Firefly III using cURL
0 3 * * * curl https://demo.firefly-iii.org/api/v1/cron/[token]
The [token] value can be found on your /profile under the "Command line token" header. This will prevent others from spamming your cron job URL. An alternative to this token value is the STATIC_CRON_TOKEN environment variable. You can set this using the .env file, or by setting it through Docker. A little ahead on this page the difference is explained.

Which I did with the token from profile. So my guess was that this cron job would handle cron tasks for user that token belongs to. If I have two users I need to execute this twice with different token.

So this is a bug that it is not working like that or token is not important parameter?

[JC5]

I have expanded the text on that page. I hope it helps with this concept :)

https://docs.firefly-iii.org/how-to/firefly-iii/advanced/cron/