Also: 1. replace "friendbo" with the name of your app. 2. To start/stop the scheduler, use "sudo start web2py-scheduler" "sudo stop web2py-scheduler" "sudo status web2py-scheduler" ...etc.
On Saturday, May 5, 2012 6:47:33 PM UTC-7, Michael Toomim wrote: > > Here's a solution I wrote. Is there a good place (like the web2py book) to > share this recipe? > > Put this in /etc/init/web2py-scheduler.conf: > > description "web2py task scheduler" > > start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0) > stop on shutdown > > # Give up if restart occurs 8 times in 60 seconds. > > respawn limit 8 60 > > exec sudo -u <user> python /home/<user>/web2py/web2py.py -K friendbo > respawn > > This assumes your web2py is in <user>'s home directory, running with > permission <user>. Replace <user> with the right user id and change eth0 if > your server uses a different network interface. > > On Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:22:25 PM UTC-7, Michael Toomim wrote: >> >> Anyone have a recipe to make the scheduler run on boot? I'm using ubuntu. >> Web2py is run in apache (using the recipe in the book), so I can't just use >> the cron @reboot line. >> >> This is the line that needs to be run when my system boots: >> python /home/web2py/web2py/web2py.py -K <appname> >> >> It seems ubuntu uses Upstart instead of sysvinit. And it might be >> possible to tell Upstart to launch the scheduler WITH apache, using a line >> like "start on started apache2" but I don't know how it works, and >> apache2 to use upstart. >> >> It would be nice to have a recipe for the scheduler that we could add >> into the book, to synchronize it with apache. >> >
