Registering Cron using CronTab

[gurcharan.saini]

Hi

I'm developing a Django application which is running on Apache. We
need to add crontab from the Python script and we are using Python
CronTab package <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-crontab/0.7> for
this.

I'm stuck with the issue - if we execute the code from Apache the
crontab is not getting updated, while it get updated if we run it from
Django in-built webserver.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening.

I'm on Ubuntu.

Thanks

Gurcharan

 

[Philip Semanchuk]

Hi

I'm developing a Django application which is running on Apache. We
need to add crontab from the Python script and we are using Python
CronTab package <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-crontab/0.7> for
this.

I'm stuck with the issue - if we execute the code from Apache the
crontab is not getting updated, while it get updated if we run it from
Django in-built webserver.

Sure sounds like a permissions problem to me.

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Sure sounds like a permissions problem to me.

Same here. Note that you can run a CGI under its owning user in Apache with
the suexec feature. That might give you the permissions you need.

 

[gurcharan.saini]

Same here. Note that you can run a CGI under its owning user in Apache with
the suexec feature. That might give you the permissions you need.

Thanks, will go through the docs.