Get rid of the standard output redirect and append symbol for shell use, '>>', in your crontab. Cron jobs do not use a shell. Standard output is passed back to web2py and will appear in your web2py logs.
John Heenan On Feb 14, 6:13 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > When running the command below everything works fine, the python file > executes correctly. > > thadeus$ /usr/bin/python /web2py/web2py.py -S MYAPP -M -R > /web2py/applications/MYAPP/cron/update_records.py >> > /web2py/applications/MYAPP/cron/cron.log > > This works great when running from bash, however when I stick this > into cron, the only thing that appears in the log is the following. > > =web2py Enterprise Web Framework > =Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2010 > =Version 1.74.11 (2010-02-03 10:53:34) > =Database drivers available: SQLite3, PostgreSQL > =Starting cron... > > It seems as if web2py is just stopping there, and not executing the > update_records file. This is what I have in my linux crontab file. > > */1 * * * * /usr/bin/python /web2py/web2py.py -S MYAPP -M -R > /web2py/applications/MYAPP/cron/update_records.py >> > /web2py/applications/MYAPP/cron/cron.log > > Why does this work on the command line but not when put into external > cron ? On an older version of web2py (version 1.64.*) it works > perfectly, currently this is running on 1.74.11. > > -Thadeus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
