James <pkx1...@gmail.com> writes: > On 4 March 2012 11:10, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 08:10:59AM +0000, James wrote: >>> Anyway, I'm back at home this evening and will have a few more test >>> runs (with cron just to make sure I can leave it unattended) and then >>> by Monday I should be running 'lilypond-patchy-staging.py' as often as >>> people want me to. Any specific schedule? >> >> I suggest either every 12 hours or every 6 hours. If we had other >> systems running cron then it might be nice to spread the load by >> staggering the runs, but it sounds like Phil only runs it manually >> after booting that machine. It would be nice if somebody else >> with a fast computer could set it up as well, just so that more >> people know how to do it... but it seems like the CG is relatively >> good at explaining patchy staging-merge, so I'm not too fussed >> about that now. > > I cant seem to get cron jobs to run on my LilyDev - I've done all the > cron.allow etc. I was wondering (if anyone knows immediately) if > stating the command in cron requires anything special if using two > concatenated commands. > > I.e. I run cd /home/james/lilypond-git && python > /home/james/patchy/lilypond-patchy-staging.py which works at the CLI > but not when I enter that literally in cron. I tried surrounding it in > " ' " but that didn't seem to make any difference.
What is your complete cron line? You are aware that the PATH variable is set to a quite basic path? -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel