Actually, cron has a keyword for that. Specify the time of the task as
@reboot and itt will be run only once, right after booting.

On Jul 8, 4:47 pm, Mr admin <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can use CRON entry like  this to try and run web2py every 15 minuses
>
> # cron entry to run web2py every 15 minutes
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /root/runweb2py.sh
>
> Here are the contents of the shell script.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> #   runweb2py.sh
> #
> cd /home/web2py
> python web2py.py -i 192.168.0.200 -p 8000 -a MyPassWord
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Mr admin wrote:
>
> > > One thing you can do is, login to the box using ssh, edit your
> > > models, views and controllers without using the admin interface at
> > > all.
>
> > I'm not particularly concerned about the admin interface; I'm happy to
> > develop locally (OS X in my case) and deploy updates via ssh.
>
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 5:21 AM, NetAdmin wrote:
>
> > > As for running after a reboot, you could use cron to try and start
> > > web2py hourly. If it's running, it should give an error message
> > > that says "Address already in use"
>
> > I don't like that this would put me off the air for an hour (or
> > whatever interval). On the other hand, reboots are rare, so maybe it's
> > not such a problem.
>
> > I was vaguely thinking along the lines of having a cgi script that
> > would be invoked by a request to web2py if web2py weren't running. But
> > I haven't really thought out the implications of that.
>
> > There's another problem, that Apache runs as a global user on the
> > host. I use a PHP-only wrapper script for a couple of applications,
> > such as WordPress <http://pragmatos.net>. So perhaps a wrapped PHP
> > script to do the startup?
>
> > Regardless, it'd be nice to have a recipe or three for running web2py
> > via login account.
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