On Monday, September 2, 2019 at 8:23:57 AM UTC-7, Francis Windram wrote: > > Hi All, > > Seems like a simple question here but I am struggling with finding an > elegant solution. > > I have a scheduler running with one task that runs at around 2200 every > night, then queues the next run at 2200 the next day. However I am at a > loss on how to trigger off the first run (aside from a one-off script to > schedule the first run) > > Adding a piece of code in the model which checks whether an eod_run job is > in the scheduler table and schedules one if not seems like it adds a lot of > overhead, considering the models are run very regularly. > Assuming that all things work properly, once the scheduler runs one job, > it should just queue the next one, but I'm not sure if that persists over > server shutdowns. > > Do you have any suggestions? I could drop down and use a cron job on the > server itself, or using the cron functionality in web2py, but that feels > like stepping backwards when we have a perfectly functional scheduler > already enabled. > > Thanks! >
Have a controller function that runs once (basically a script) / You can put this in your startup files if you want. (My server is restarted by hand more often than by reboot, so I haven't bothered with the startup part; I'm still editing modules used by the scheduler fairly often). See <URL:http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/13/deployment-recipes#Start-the-scheduler-as-a-Linux-service-upstart-> and '<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/13/deployment-recipes#Initial-Queuing-of-a-Repeating-Task> /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/8b7d1915-7574-4197-befd-6b9a1282f8a5%40googlegroups.com.
