BTW Just out of curiosity, why are you calling -R ...test.py in your crontab ? It looks fairly redundant to me (you should call it within appname's cron/crontab).
0-59/1 * * * * cd /Users/username/Desktop/appname/web2py && python web2py.py -R applications/appname/controllers/test.py -C -D 1 >> /tmp/ cron.output 2>&1 On Apr 3, 1:29 am, seth <seth.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble doing a db.table.insert from an external cron on > macosx. > > The system cron file > > 0-59/1 * * * * cd /Users/username/Desktop/appname/web2py && python > web2py.py -R applications/appname/controllers/test.py -C -D 1 >> /tmp/ > cron.output 2>&1 > > The crontab file in appname/cron directory > > */10 * * * * root *test/callcron > > I can see the callcron method is successfully being called every ten > minutes from the cron.output file. > > But, in cron.output I get the following error > WARNING:root:unable to import dbhash > > and none of the db.table.inserts put anything in the database. > Although, when I hit the controller/action via the URL everything > works fine and I get entries in the database. > > I've also tried the -S appname and -M switches, with no changes. > > I've followed the following posts > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/cfe89bfa9d... > > and > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/9acf0aae73... > > with the same results. > > I'm new to web2py so I may be missing something obvious :) > > Thanks in advance, > -Seth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
