Re: could not able to schedule a standalone python script which uses a django module

Thanks Malcolm. It is the case. Instead of relying on the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE which was there in the /etc/profile i have used the below code (taken from http://superjared.com/entry/django-and-crontab-best-friends/ & also mentioned by peteDK) - from django.core.management import

Re: could not able to schedule a standalone python script which uses a django module

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:46 -0800, Rama Vadakattu wrote: > i configured the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE in /etc/profile.this means > that it is a system wide environmental variable and can be used every > where. Cron jobs are run in a very limited environment by default, for security reasons. That

Re: could not able to schedule a standalone python script which uses a django module

i configured the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE in /etc/profile.this means that it is a system wide environmental variable and can be used every where. On Jan 26, 8:09 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jan 26, 1:55 pm, Rama wrote: > > > > > i have a

Re: could not able to schedule a standalone python script which uses a django module

Hi I have had some problems with that myself. Don't know if this is any help, but here we go. i have created a file cron.py that i have placed in the exact same directory as my settings.py file. then at the beginning of my cron.py: from django.core.management import setup_environ import

Re: could not able to schedule a standalone python script which uses a django module

On Jan 26, 1:55 pm, Rama wrote: > i have a standalone python script which uses a django module. i need to > schedule  that script using crontab. > while doing this i encountered the following problem > > 1) the above standalone python script  which uses django module is

could not able to schedule a standalone python script which uses a django module

i have a standalone python script which uses a django module. i need to schedule that script using crontab. while doing this i encountered the following problem 1) the above standalone python script which uses django module is running properly on the terminal. ( DJANGO_MODULE_SETTINGS