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authorJoelHMikael <joel.h.kronqvist@gmail.com>2022-02-13 13:07:01 +0200
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# Installation instructions
Follow these steps to install everything required for the project to run.
-## Install the FoodJS repository:
+## Install the FoodJS repository
+Just clone it from github. If you want the server to be able to update itself automatically without modifying `init.sh`, you will have to do this in your home folder.
```
git clone "https://github.com/JoelHMikael/FoodJS.git"
```
@@ -122,4 +123,21 @@ Updating the developer table is pretty straightforward. You just need to provide
```
INSERT INTO devs (name, description, contact) VALUES ('[name]', '[description]', '[contact]');
```
-> Insert the values in the quotation marks, don't change the text before the `VALUES` keyword. \ No newline at end of file
+> Insert the values in the quotation marks, don't change the text before the `VALUES` keyword.
+
+# Automatic server code updates
+You can make the server update itself from github. To make this work, move `~/FoodJS/init.sh` to `~/init.sh`:
+```
+mv ~/FoodJS/init.sh ~/init.sh
+```
+This script should run at reboot, so next up you will have to set up some cronjobs:
+
+To your crontab:
+```
+@reboot ~/init.sh
+```
+To the crontab of **root** (you may have to update the shutdown path):
+```
+0 0 * * 7 /sbin/shutdown -r
+```
+If you need to troubleshoot the initialization, you can find both normal and error logs in /tmp/slogs (text file) \ No newline at end of file