I also just tried: */1 * * * * python /home/www-data/web2py/web2py.py -S sos_test -M -N - R applications/sos_test/private/scripts/ctest.py
and */1 * * * * python /home/www-data/web2py/web2py.py -S sos_test -M -N - R /private/scripts/ctest.py I also noticed that my crontab file doesn't have a file extension. Is that correct? On Sep 24, 3:33 pm, Lennon <lpru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm still not able to get this to run. I even tried restarting apache > but to no avail. > > */1 * * * * python /home/www-data/web2py/web2py.py -J -S my_app_name - > R /cron/ctest.py > > ctest.py looks like this and runs fine in the command line on the > server: > > FILE = open("pytest.txt","w") > FILE.writelines('cronification') > FILE.close() > > Any ideas? > > On Sep 23, 11:38 am, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > You typically need to run it in the web2py environment (use absolute paths): > > > */1 * * * * python /path/to/web2py/web2py.py -J -S app_name -R > > /path/to/script > > > You could also add something like "2&1> /path/to/log.log" so that output > > gets put into a log file in case there's an error in your script.