Just to chime in, I'm still alive and preparing an update to cron as
quite a few things changed since I last touched it. As for the
questions - all cron modes support the * and ** syntax, and yes, cron
files can be modified on the fly.
On Jan 26, 4:00 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> I did not write cron personally and I am still trying to understand
> some of it, Attila did.
> I am in the looking at cron these days to treamline it a bit and I am
> trying to understand better as it works.
>
> Since windows does not have cron, you should use web2py hardcron. It
> should work on windows 7 but I have not tried it. The "root" is the
> username that should run the cron task. It is only used by extcron and
> ignored otherwise (but must be there, for compatibility of syntax).
>
> I am not sure if tasks staring with * or ** run under extcron so I
> suggest not using pycron. Given hardcron you do not need pycron
> anyway.
>
> Mind that this is in the process of being refactored a bit. Perhaps
> you can help with testing and debugging so you can be sure it works as
> you need it.
>
> On Jan 26, 4:27 am, Oguz Yarimtepe <oguzyarimt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was trying to use the cron property of web2py at my project. I am
> > using web2py under windows 7. I had installed wamp server with mod_wsgi.
> > According to the documentation it is suggested to use the external cron.
> > I tried to test the soft cron issue so i added the below line to my
> > application crontab
>
> > #crontab
> > */2 * * * * root *decrease/
>
> > and at the controllers directory the decrease file is as is
>
> > # coding: utf8
>
> > def index():
>
> > f=file("C:\\Users\\oguz\\hede.txt", "w+")
> > f.write("ok")
> > f.close()
>
> > return dict()
>
> > So when the application is loaded shouldn't i see the txt is created at
> > every 2 minutes?
>
> > What is the usage of the root keyword at the crontab file? For windows
> > application what should it be?
>
> > And if i want to use the external cron method, it says i should add a
> > line to system cron file. This doesn't sound me so effective at my
> > application so i will be prefering to use something like pycron. Anybody
> > tested these things at windows 7?
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