OK, I've totally misunderstood what web2py external cron integration meant. I thought that I would be integrating system cron to run using the web2py crontab. I understand now that it's just describing a way to use the system cron to call web2py, which means it's easy to set command line parameters. Now it all makes sense.
I do use cron and understand how to set it on a linux system. The way external cron was described on one site I found online, it sounded like web2py somehow integrated with the system cron utility in such a way that I could set the system cron using the crontab on the web2py admin. Thanks so much for clearing that up. I just need to use system cron utility as usual and set web2py command line switches as I would with any program I run on the system cron. Thanks again! Eric On Aug 26, 1:57 pm, Ross Peoples <[email protected]> wrote: > Correction on that last, -S is what tells web2py to not start Rocket, while > -J is what tells web2py that it is running as a background process.
