On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Lennon wrote: > Thanks for the update. > > So in that case the old Cron should still be working.
Yes. > > Can anybody tell me if to use cron on linux running apache or windows > locally, is there any additional setup needed besides adding inserting > a line into crontab in order to make scheduled tasks work? How are you running web2py? If you're using wsgihandler.py, you need to set SOFTCRON = True (in wsgihandler.py) if you're going to use softcron. > > > On Sep 23, 11:16 am, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't know too much about it yet, but I do know that it is still >> experimental, so it hasn't replaced anything yet. There was talk of >> replacing it in the future, but it may end up complimenting it. Again, I'm >> not totally sure about the future of it, but right now, you can play with >> it, but probably shouldn't use it in production unless you understand that >> it can break or be completely changed at any time.
