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Hi @derrick-feehi, would you mind sharing how your entrypoint file looks like and how it calls the cron function.

On your app deployment, do you see the Cron Run tab ?

Short snippet of the source code, this ideally should be the entry point for the Function, i believe:

export async function cron(req: CronRequest): Promise<Response> {

// Log a message to your Railway function logs

console.log(

Cron job "${req.cron}" triggered at ${new Date().toISOString()}

);

const ticket_id = Bun.env.TICKET_ID || ("" as string);

if (!ticket_id) {

return Response.json(

{ success: false, error: "Environment variable TICKET_ID is missing" },

{ status: 400 }

);

}

const result = await sendTicketConfirmation(ticket_id);

// Railway will log this response, but nothing "receives" it.

// This is fine.

return Response.json(result);

}

From what I see, the cron calls index.tsx file and I guess cron function is inside this file, right?

Somewhere in that file, you should have an explicit call to the cron function, something like

// ...
cron(req)
  .then(...)
  .catch(...)

Not sure I need that, bare in mind this is Railway Function-Bun tasks.

If you did not define the cron function, I guess your code would be executed directly. But since the function is defined, it won't be executed unless explicitly called I think

I am facing the same issue,

async function main() {
  if (result.success) {
    process.exit(0);
  } else {
    process.exit(1);
  }
}

// Run the script
main().catch((error) => {
  process.exit(1);
});

this is a sample script that i am running.
It runs perfectly if deployed as a normal service without cron.
Does not run with cron or even with 'run now'