merge #587 - move backup and nightly status checks to 3am in system time

previously these were run in a cron.daily script which per crontab is run at 6:25 am local time

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Control panel:
 
 System:
 
+* Nightly backups and system status checks are now moved to 3am in the system's timezone.
 * fail2ban's recidive jail is now active, which guards against persistent brute force login attacks over long periods of time.
 * Setup (first run only) now asks for your timezone to set the system time.
 * The Exchange/ActiveSync server is now taken offline during nightly backups (along with SMTP and IMAP).
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ System:
 * Fix pip command that might have not installed all necessary Python packages.
 * The control panel and backup would not work on Google Compute Engine because GCE installs a conflicting boto package.
 * Added a new command `management/backup.py --restore` to restore files from a backup to a target directory (command line arguments are passed to `duplicity restore`).
+* Update Roundcube to version 1.1.3.
 
 v0.14 (November 4, 2015)
 ------------------------

management/daily_tasks.sh

+#!/bin/bash
+# This script is run daily (at 3am each night).
+
+# Take a backup.
+management/backup.py
+
+# Run status checks and email the administrator if anything changed.
+management/status_checks.py --show-changes --smtp

setup/management.sh

@@ -31,25 +31,18 @@ rm -f /etc/init.d/mailinabox
 ln -s $(pwd)/conf/management-initscript /etc/init.d/mailinabox
 hide_output update-rc.d mailinabox defaults
 
-# Perform a daily backup.
-cat > /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-backup << EOF;
-#!/bin/bash
-# Mail-in-a-Box --- Do not edit / will be overwritten on update.
-# Perform a backup.
-$(pwd)/management/backup.py
-EOF
-chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-backup
+# Remove old files we no longer use.
+rm -f /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-backup
+rm -f /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-statuschecks
 
-# Perform daily status checks. Compare each day to the previous
-# for changes and mail the changes to the administrator.
-cat > /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-statuschecks << EOF;
-#!/bin/bash
+# Perform nightly tasks at 3am in system time: take a backup, run
+# status checks and email the administrator any changes.
+
+cat > /etc/cron.d/mailinabox-nightly << EOF;
 # Mail-in-a-Box --- Do not edit / will be overwritten on update.
-# Run status checks.
-$(pwd)/management/status_checks.py --show-changes --smtp
+# Run nightly tasks: backup, status checks.
+0 3 * * *	root	(cd `pwd` && management/daily_tasks.sh)
 EOF
-chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-statuschecks
-
 
 # Start it.
 restart_service mailinabox