if the task fails, period is honored nonetheless, so what you're experiencing is extremely weird. a task queued with period=86400, repeats=0 and retry_failed=-1 will be executed with no less than an 86400 seconds interval whether it fails or it completes.
On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8:44:52 PM UTC+1, Alex wrote: > > how does the correct setup for a daily scheduler task look like? > > currently I'm using an entry in scheduler_task with repeats 0 (unlimited) > and retry_failed -1 (unlimited). If the task runs without errors everything > is fine and the task is executed once a day. But if the task fails (e.g. > runtime error or an exception) then the task is repeated all the time and I > have many entries in the scheduler_run table after a short time. Strangely > this doesn't happen all the time, sometimes the task is only executed once > and then again on the next day. > > Now I tried using retry_failed 0 to avoid those problems. In this case the > failed task is only executed once but will not be executed again on the > next day. > > Is it possible to create a task which is executed only once every day? > > Alex > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
