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Huzaifa Zahoor
Asked: 2020-10-14 22:44:33 +0800 CST

Django crontab is not running, even i setup everything

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I am using crontab in django and my OS is ubuntu

def my_scheduled_job():
    print("1")

This is code in settings.py

CRONJOBS = [
    ('*/1 * * * *', 'stocks.cron.my_scheduled_job')
]

If I run

python3 manage.py crontab run #with hash

it runs the function and print it, but it does not run when I run server. What should I do.

It was my code in crontab

    crontab -e
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/stockstelegraph/manage.py crontab run 6b918d2422a9f4fce735a3383cee6485 # django-cronjobs
python cron python3 django

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your code actually works. You may be think that print("1") should appear in stdout? So it doesn't work that way, because cron doesn't use stdour and stderr for it's output. To see actual results you should point path to some log file in CRONJOBS list: just put '>> /path/to/log/file.log' as last argument, e.g:

    ('*/1 * * * *', 'stocks.cron.my_scheduled_job', '>> /path/to/log/file.log')
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