January 2026: Pterodactyl cron job would not run until pteroq restart

Summary: Vintage Story's scheduled cron job to start and stop at a particular time would not run unless forced to do so by operator.

Reported by: Fleff

Date Reported: January 9, 2026

Date Resolved: January 9, 2026 (~8 minutes)

Root Cause: Not fully known at this time; suspect the Pterodactyl worker queue entered a hanged state.

Resolution: Pterodactyl worker queue restarted via systemctl restart pteroq.

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