Can you send me a patch to the schedule including these instructions in the docstring?
On Saturday, 5 May 2012 20:54:01 UTC-5, Michael Toomim wrote: > > 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. >>> >>
