I did not write cron personally and I am still trying to understand
some of it, Attila did.
I am in the looking at cron these days to treamline it a bit and I am
trying to understand better as it works.
Since windows does not have cron, you should use web2py hardcron. It
should work on windows 7 but I have not tried it. The "root" is the
username that should run the cron task. It is only used by extcron and
ignored otherwise (but must be there, for compatibility of syntax).
I am not sure if tasks staring with * or ** run under extcron so I
suggest not using pycron. Given hardcron you do not need pycron
anyway.
Mind that this is in the process of being refactored a bit. Perhaps
you can help with testing and debugging so you can be sure it works as
you need it.
On Jan 26, 4:27 am, Oguz Yarimtepe <oguzyarimt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to use the cron property of web2py at my project. I am
> using web2py under windows 7. I had installed wamp server with mod_wsgi.
> According to the documentation it is suggested to use the external cron.
> I tried to test the soft cron issue so i added the below line to my
> application crontab
>
> #crontab
> */2 * * * * root *decrease/
>
> and at the controllers directory the decrease file is as is
>
> # coding: utf8
>
> def index():
>
> f=file("C:\\Users\\oguz\\hede.txt", "w+")
> f.write("ok")
> f.close()
>
> return dict()
>
> So when the application is loaded shouldn't i see the txt is created at
> every 2 minutes?
>
> What is the usage of the root keyword at the crontab file? For windows
> application what should it be?
>
> And if i want to use the external cron method, it says i should add a
> line to system cron file. This doesn't sound me so effective at my
> application so i will be prefering to use something like pycron. Anybody
> tested these things at windows 7?
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