When I running web2py locally on my windows 7 machine I was getting this in the console:
Starting hardcron... WARNING:web2py.cron:WEB2PY CRON: Disabled because no file locking WARNING:web2py.cron:WEB2PY CRON: Disabled because no file locking WARNING:web2py.cron:WEB2PY CRON: Disabled because no file locking I found this thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.web2py/43243 and proceeded to instal the win32 extension (for python 2.7) that Massimo linked to. Now I'm getting the following: Starting hardcron... Exception in thread Thread-5: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "C:\Users\Sony\workspace\web2py\gluon\newcron.py", line 220, in run shell=self.shell) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 893, in _execute_child startupinfo) WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified Then next it'll say: Exception in thread Thread-6: (Same error as thread-5) and so on.