Massimo, With your web2py_win_check.zip version, placed in a path containing spaces I get:
C:\Users\Brian\Documents\development\web2py\web2py win check \web2py>web2py.exe web2py Enterprise Web Framework Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2010 Version 1.74.8 (2010-01-30 19:00:11) Database drivers available: SQLite3, MySQL Starting cron... WARNING:root:WEB2PY CRON Call returned code 1: The system cannot find the file specified. WARNING:root:WEB2PY CRON Call returned code 1: The system cannot find the file specified. WARNING:root:WEB2PY CRON Call returned code 1: The system cannot find the file specified. WARNING:root:WEB2PY CRON Call returned code 1: The system cannot find the file specified. Yes the WARNING is actually repeated twice. This particular symptom seems to be with the windows binary version of web2py - I can run the source version from a path containing spaces and I do not get this error message. With the source version cron seems to run, well other than the previously mentioned problem with @reboot lines being run on every "crondance". I'm trying to pick my way through the cron.py code to see if I can find the issue with @reboot. I suspect the problems with the windows binary are due to the way py2exe works. ~Brian On Jan 30, 7:16 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you please try this? > > http://web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_win_check.zip > > try with cron, @reboot and with web2py in a path that contains spaces > (the main issue). > > On Jan 30, 5:39 pm, Brian M <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Well on my Win7 setup with source distribution of web2py I can confirm > > that @reboot cron lines do not run when I start up web2py. The same > > cron line with a normal time declaration does run just fine. > > > #...@reboot does not run > > @reboot * * * * root *reboot/on_reboot > > #But with normal time syntax runs just fine > > 0-59/5 * * * * root *reboot/on_reboot > > > As far as spaces in file path names affecting things, I'd need more > > specific information about what is in people's crontab files. When I > > was trying to test @reboot I purposely stuck web2py in a path that > > contained spaces and didn't seem to have any problems. Normally within > > python scripts I use os.path.join() to build up my file paths so that > > I don't have to worry about the slashes - os.path.join('C:\', > > 'Documents and Settings', 'Username', 'My Documents', 'folder', 'sub > > folder', 'file.txt') works just fine. > > > Also in my crontab, I could execute a non-web2py python script with > > > 0-59/2 * * * * root python > > "C:\Users\Brian\Documents\some project > > \scripts\some_script.py" >> cron.log > > > On Windows you do need to add the python executable to your path if > > you don't want to always have to type C:\Python26\python.exe script.py > > - for some reason the windows python installer doesn't do it > > automatically. If you don't know already, here's how... > > > Win7: > > Right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties" > > On the left side click the "Advanced System Settings" link. > > Go to the "Advanced" tab > > Click on the "Environment Variables" button at the bottom. > > In the "System Variables" section (the bottom one), scroll down to > > "Path" and click once to highlight. (If you want it only for your > > use, add it to the user variables. You'll need to add a new "Path" > > variable) > > Click the "Edit..." button. > > In the "Variable value" field, add ";C:\Python26\" on to the end - > > without the quotes, the semi-colon is the separator between the > > multiple entries. (If you're using Python 2.5 then use C:\Python25) > > Click "OK" three times to get rid of all the windows. > > > WinXP: > > Right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties" > > Go to the "Advanced" tab. > > Follow the rest of the instructions above. > > Same as above > > > ~Brian > > > On Jan 30, 4:55 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I replace the Popen(command) with Popen(list_of_args) and this > > > (according to some) should fix the escaping problem. Needs testing. > > > > Massimo > > > > On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 30, 2010, at 1:40 PM, mdipierro wrote: > > > > > > The problem is when paths contain spaces. > > > > > > I thought even in windows in this case one should esacpe spaces with > > > > > '\ ' and use either \\ ('\\\\' in python) or / ('/') to separate > > > > > folders. For example: > > > > > > 'C:/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/' > > > > > > or > > > > > > 'C:\\windows\\Documents\ and\ Settings\\' > > > > > > Am I wrong? > > > > > I think so, but I'm no expert on the subject. > > > > > Consider that if 'c:\\abc' makes Windows see 'c:\abc', then escaping > > > > the space isn't going to have any effect. > > > > > You can quote a command on the command line, so possibly something like: > > > > > '"C:\\windows\\Documents and Settings\\"' > > > > > might work. Forward slashes are permitted in system calls, but IIRC not > > > > on the command line, where (at least back in the DOS days) they denoted > > > > command options (equivalent to - in Unix). I'd expect cron entries to > > > > be more like command-line or batch-file content. > > > > > But as I say, I'm no expert. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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