Re: Creating a Scheduled Task

2008-07-13 Thread Oscar Carlsson
If you are on a *NIX platform (linux, freebsd, os x etc) the easiest way to schedule a task is using cron, and writing a python script that can be run from cron is trivial, even if you need to use django in this script. Just put the script in your project root, and follow these instructions:

Re: Creating a Scheduled Task

2008-07-13 Thread Adam Fast
I'm not sure about admin integration but there are two apps out there that handle task scheduling. http://code.google.com/p/django-cron/ http://code.google.com/p/django-jits/ On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to Django, and I'm trying to

Re: Creating a Scheduled Task

2008-07-12 Thread Peter Rowell
> I can do > this "outside" Django with Cron and a script that uses the standalone > ORM, but is there any way to incorporate this into admin so I can see > what tasks are run and when? Well, you are probably still going to have cron (or equivalent) in there somewhere because you need something

Re: Creating a Scheduled Task

2008-07-12 Thread John M
I've seen previous posts which tell you to setup the CRON job with the correct settings, so you can just call django from the CRON job, since django is just python, as long as it finds the settings file you should be ok. J On Jul 12, 7:53 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a