Thanks for the pointer, I don't think soft cron will be ideal, but I did manage to get external cron working, so all's well.
On Saturday, March 3, 2012 10:52:25 AM UTC-7, Serpent_Guard wrote: > > I've been developing a web2py app under Mac OS X, which utilizes the > built-in cron. It's been working great. Yesterday I deployed my app to a > web2py install sitting on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu. Now, cron isn't > working anymore. I'm not an expert in cron syntax, so I wonder if there's > something I need to change now that it's running in a different OS. > > Note that I used the instructions at > http://www.scribd.com/doc/26436821/Howto-deploy-Web2py-on-amazon-Ec2 to > get web2py up and running. Thanks to whoever put that together, it worked > beautifully. > > Here's my crontab: > > #crontab > * * * * * root *mailer/send_messages > > That's how it looked under Mac OS X, when it was working. Like I said, > I'm no expert in cron syntax, so I'm not sure what the 'root' has to do > with the line, I couldn't find anything like it in any online cron > tutorials. I tried changing it to 'ubuntu', the default shell user for the > instance, but no dice. Any help would be appreciated. > > Note also that the send_messages function has the signature, > 'send_messages(noop="noop")', just so the function isn't exposed as a URL > If there are any better ways of doing this that'd be good to know as well. > Thanks! >
