sorry, It didn't work for me either. I thought in first place that it is working but it wasnt.. problem is still open.
On Aug 13, 12:32 pm, Hasanat Kazmi <hasanatka...@gmail.com> wrote: > This isn't a big problem. I placed my script in cron folder (same as > crontab) and added this line > @reboot script.py > It worked.... > > On Aug 12, 6:31 pm, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Should cron's @reboot be able to call a script or can it just call a > > controller function? > > > The docs just show a controller function for this > > mode:http://www.web2py.com/examples/default/cron > > > I'd like to be able to call an external script instead...this isn't > > working even for very simple scripts though. > > (The scripts run fine when called manually) > > > I tried both syntaxes shown in the docs: > > @reboot root *applications/sahana/cron/test.py > > @reboot * * * * root *applications/sahana/cron/test.py > > > Any ideas what could be wrong? > > > I've tried on both XP (with Service & with Source) & Linux with Apache/ > > WSGI > > - how should @reboot work in the latter environment? > > > XP with source, I just get this error: > > WARNING:root:WEB2PY CRON Call returned code 1: > > Which isn't erribly helpful... > > > F --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
