Removed all functions with cron and automating the adding of books to reduce the size of the container.

Author: bcleonard

Dockerfile

@@ -1,20 +1,13 @@
 FROM fedora:23
 MAINTAINER Bradley Leonard <[email protected]> 
 
-# install basic development tools 
-#RUN dnf -y update\
-#  && dnf clean all
-
 # install calibre cronie
-RUN dnf -y install calibre cronie
+RUN dnf -y install calibre-2.49.0
 
 # create directories
 #RUN mkdir /library & mkdir /addbooks & mkdir /scripts
 RUN mkdir /data & mkdir /scripts
 
-# add crontab
-ADD crontab /scripts/crontab
-
 # add add-books.sh
 ADD add-books.sh /scripts/add-books.sh
 RUN chmod 755 /scripts/add-books.sh

README.md

@@ -1,22 +1,47 @@
 # calibre
 
-This contains the docker file and all necessary files to build a docker container for calibre
+This contains the docker file and all necessary files to build a docker container for calibre.
+
+Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com) is probably the best e-book management system out there.  This docker container will run the 
+server portion only.
 
 ### Preperation
+
 Before running the container, you'll need to have the following directories predefined on the container host:
 ```sh
 library
 addbooks
 ```
-The library directory will hold your books & database.  addbooks will be used to add books to your library on a periodic basis.  I used:
+The library directory will hold your books & database.  addbooks will be used to add books to your library.  I used:
 ```sh
-/data/library
-/data/addbooks
+/home/books/library
+/home/books/addbooks
 ```
-for the instructions below.  Just make sure you create it prior to starting the container.
+for the instructions below.  Just make sure you create them prior to starting the container.
+
 ### To run the container:
+
+```sh
+docker run -d --name=calibre -v /home/books:/data:Z -p 8080:8080 bcleonard/calibre
+```
+
+### To access Calibre:
+
 ```sh
-docker run -v /data:/data -p 8080:8080 bcleonard/calibre
+http://<docker_host>:8080
 ```
-### Notes:
+
+### To add books to the library.  
+
+First add your books to /home/books/addbooks, one book (all formats) per directory.  Then run the following command:
+```sh
+docker exec calibre /scripts/add-books.sh
+```
+All the books in /home/books/addbooks will be added to the library, removed from the /home/books/addbooks directory and calibre notified.
+
+### Notes/Caveats/Issues:
+
+1.	Previous versions of the container used to automatically run the add-books.sh script hourly via cron.  In an effect to reduce the image size and with the available of the docker exec command, that functionality has been removed.
+2.	I recommend running the add-scripts.sh ad-hoc, when necessary.  You can schedule it via the host (via cron, etc).
+3.	I recommend that you only pull versioned containers, not latest.  
 

crontab

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 #!/bin/bash
 
-#
-# add crontab for root
-#
-crontab /scripts/crontab
-
-#
-# start crond
-#
-/usr/sbin/crond
-
 #
 # start calibre-server
 #