Docker compose - add startup delay to entrypoint?

[Gibbz (Bronson)]

Im looking to delay load syncthing docker on my system. I have found I can modify the entrypoint with a sleep, however after adding the sleep the container loading fails…

Any idea how to get this to work with a sleep command?

this works normal:

entrypoint: "./bin/entrypoint.sh /bin/syncthing"

this fails:

entrypoint: "sleep 1 && ./bin/entrypoint.sh /bin/syncthing"

docker compose:

version: '3.7'

services:
  syncthing:
    image: syncthing/syncthing
    container_name: syncthing
    environment:
        - PUID=1000
        - PGID=1000
        #- STGUIADDRESS=127.0.0.1
       # STHOMEDIR=/home
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    entrypoint: "sleep 1 && ./bin/entrypoint.sh /bin/syncthing"
    volumes:
        - ${HOME}/Docker/syncthing/config:/var/syncthing/config
        - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

[bt90]

Why do you need to delay the startup?

[Ganker]

The entrypoint is not evaluated by any shell, hence your command does not work. You can work around this by changing it to something like:

entrypoint: “bash -c ‘sleep 1 && ./bin/entrypoint.sh /bin/syncthing’”

[Gibbz (Bronson)]

Great! I ended up with the following command:

entrypoint: sh -c 'sleep 10  && /bin/entrypoint.sh /bin/syncthing'

I need a delay to allow the os to finish booting and connect to the usb disk drives.