Hello,

Cron jobs should not be running web services, can you share more about your use case?

Thanks for the quick reply! My use case isn't running a web service via cron. I'm trying to run a simple Django management command (python manage.py deleteoldfiles) for periodic cleanup (deleting old files) on the schedule defined in the UI (0 3 * * *).
I added cronCommand = "python manage.py deleteoldfiles" to my railway.toml's [deploy] section, following what seemed like the standard approach. Is there a different or recommended way to schedule a standalone management command like this on Railway, perhaps separate from the main web service definition? The 502 errors and lack of logs started after adding this command and the cron config.

My use case isn't running a web service via cron

It has a domain?

ah yes, the service has the ledgerize.ai domain attached because it runs the main Django web application using the startCommand (gunicorn …).
The cronCommand (python manage.py deleteoldfiles) was intended just to run that specific cleanup task on the defined schedule, separate from the web serving.

You would want to run the site and cron job as two separate Railway services

ah i see

is there a place i could input a Cron Command? cant seem to find it @Brody

it would be the start command