You can create cron job as http get request on some uri, and then curl it from cron.
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:42:54 PM UTC+4, He Shiming wrote: > > Dear Community, > > I wrote an app using webpy (webpy.org). Part of this web app is > recurring background tasks for statistical functions. I used > ``APScheduler`` python library to perform cron style schedules. > Because ``app.run()`` let webpy run in standalone mode during > development. This setup worked out fine. > > However, when it's deployed, I discovered that APScheduler no longer > functions. Deployment procedure pretty much follows > > http://fartersoft.com/blog/2012/02/10/deployment-of-web-py-applications-using-uwsgi-and-nginx-on-ubuntu/ > > . My entry point program still prints successful scheduling logs. But > it appears that uwsgi will suspend the running webpy app (making the > thread suspended) when no requests are received. If I refresh a page, > APScheduler will wakeup, printing a few > ``WARNING:apscheduler.scheduler:Run time of job "worker (trigger: > cron[...], next run at: ..)" was missed by 0:04:36.389705`` messages. > They are not running according to the schedule. > > My question is, how do I schedule cron style tasks when deploying a > uwsgi webpy app. I saw uwsgi itself has cron support. But I wonder how > I can mix it with my app, like APScheduler (or replace it)? The tasks > depends on a few modules and dynamic properties of the app, so they > can't be easily converted into standalone .py programs. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > He Shiming -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/webpy/-/9s6ch69FK9cJ. To post to this group, send email to webpy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to webpy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en.