On Mar9, 7:17pm, AchipA <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 9, 8:22 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote: > > > 1. In the crontab file, usually we write > > #0-59/1 * * * * root > > /path/to/some/executable_file > > But I found that, on Windows platform, "/" are not recognized as a > > path separater, but a command line switch prefix. Not what we want. So > > it would better that crontab file can use "/" as path separater on > > both Linux and Windows, perhaps more other platforms. > > Mixed emotions on this one. Obviously it would be good if we could > keep syntax regardless of platform, but I'm afraid making such > conversions can actually result in problems if someone *really* wants/ > needs to use "/" (say, dir /s \dir\to\list > c:\temp\file). Switching > separators can be very tricky when it comes to shell execution.
Your concern is reasonable. So we can make a conclusion here: If you want your crontab to be platform independent, do NOT use the "/path/to/ some/executable_file" approach, but use "*applications/myapp/cron/ myscript.py" approach. Maybe this statement should appear at the beginning of applications/welcome/cron/crontab as a warning. > As for the address, what's your web server setup ? Just plain web2py > (and on what port), do you have apache/IIS in the mix, too ? I only run web2py_win.zip itself by "web2py.exe -a1 -p80", without any apache/IIS etc. Depends on the "-p" switch, port might be chosen to something other than 80. Now the little problem is that, in myapp/cron/ trigger.py, I can not find a way to automatically detect which port the main web2py thread is running at. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
