which version? Please give me the version timestamp as shown in the
main admin interface.
On Jan 30, 5:39 pm, Brian M <bmere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well on my Win7 setup with source distribution of web2py I can confirm
> that @reboot cron lines do not run when I start up web2py. The same
> cron line with a normal time declaration does run just fine.
>
> #...@reboot does not run
> @reboot * * * * root *reboot/on_reboot
> #But with normal time syntax runs just fine
> 0-59/5 * * * * root *reboot/on_reboot
>
> As far as spaces in file path names affecting things, I'd need more
> specific information about what is in people's crontab files. When I
> was trying to test @reboot I purposely stuck web2py in a path that
> contained spaces and didn't seem to have any problems. Normally within
> python scripts I use os.path.join() to build up my file paths so that
> I don't have to worry about the slashes - os.path.join('C:\',
> 'Documents and Settings', 'Username', 'My Documents', 'folder', 'sub
> folder', 'file.txt') works just fine.
>
> Also in my crontab, I could execute a non-web2py python script with
>
> 0-59/2 * * * * root python
> "C:\Users\Brian\Documents\some project
> \scripts\some_script.py" >> cron.log
>
> On Windows you do need to add the python executable to your path if
> you don't want to always have to type C:\Python26\python.exe script.py
> - for some reason the windows python installer doesn't do it
> automatically. If you don't know already, here's how...
>
> Win7:
> Right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties"
> On the left side click the "Advanced System Settings" link.
> Go to the "Advanced" tab
> Click on the "Environment Variables" button at the bottom.
> In the "System Variables" section (the bottom one), scroll down to
> "Path" and click once to highlight. (If you want it only for your
> use, add it to the user variables. You'll need to add a new "Path"
> variable)
> Click the "Edit..." button.
> In the "Variable value" field, add ";C:\Python26\" on to the end -
> without the quotes, the semi-colon is the separator between the
> multiple entries. (If you're using Python 2.5 then use C:\Python25)
> Click "OK" three times to get rid of all the windows.
>
> WinXP:
> Right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties"
> Go to the "Advanced" tab.
> Follow the rest of the instructions above.
> Same as above
>
> ~Brian
>
> On Jan 30, 4:55 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > I replace the Popen(command) with Popen(list_of_args) and this
> > (according to some) should fix the escaping problem. Needs testing.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Jan 30, 2010, at 1:40 PM, mdipierro wrote:
>
> > > > The problem is when paths contain spaces.
>
> > > > I thought even in windows in this case one should esacpe spaces with
> > > > '\ ' and use either \\ ('\\\\' in python) or / ('/') to separate
> > > > folders. For example:
>
> > > > 'C:/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/'
>
> > > > or
>
> > > > 'C:\\windows\\Documents\ and\ Settings\\'
>
> > > > Am I wrong?
>
> > > I think so, but I'm no expert on the subject.
>
> > > Consider that if 'c:\\abc' makes Windows see 'c:\abc', then escaping the
> > > space isn't going to have any effect.
>
> > > You can quote a command on the command line, so possibly something like:
>
> > > '"C:\\windows\\Documents and Settings\\"'
>
> > > might work. Forward slashes are permitted in system calls, but IIRC not
> > > on the command line, where (at least back in the DOS days) they denoted
> > > command options (equivalent to - in Unix). I'd expect cron entries to be
> > > more like command-line or batch-file content.
>
> > > But as I say, I'm no expert.
>
>
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