django-newsletter, cron job not working

[frocco]

Hello,

Can someone give me an example of running a cronjob hourly?

I am on webfaction and cannot get this working.

I tried

@hourly /usr/local/bin/python2.7 ~/webapps/ntw/myproject/manage.py runjob submit

I get no email

If I SSH in and sunit manually, it works fine

[Shawn Milochik]

It's almost certainly an environment issue, such as an issue with your PATH or PYTHONPATH.

Just add to the command so that it puts all standard output and standard error to a file to read what the message is.

your_command &> /tmp/broken_cron.log

Then rig your cron job to run ASAP and read the log.

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[Sam Walters]

Hi
In addition to the previous advice i would also check /etc/init.d/cron to see if the daemon is running.

make sure you have the correct date+time settings in your shell eg: 'date' command.

also run some sort of primitive debug command like:
* * * * * touch "/tmp/$(date +\%d-\%m-\%Y-\%T)"

for a couple of minutes to see if it executes.

my money is on a path issue though ;)

[frocco]

Thank you

[Tom Evans]

Specify the full, absolute path to the file. Cron won't expand '~'.

Cheers

Tom

[Shawn Milochik]

Here's an example of something taken straight from my crontab from a WebFaction account:

44 * * * * cd ~/webapps/awstats_milocast;./update_awstats.sh

This runs on minute 44 of every hour. There are five "time" parameters. The first one is "minute." If you set a number there, it'll run on that minute every hour.

Tom