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I am working with a django app called django-mailbox. The purpose of this is to import email messages via pop3 and other protocols and store them in a db. I want to do this at regular intervals via a chron. In the documentation http://django-mailbox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/polling.html it states:
Using a cron job
You can easily consume incoming mail by running the management command named getmail (optionally with an argument of the name of the mailbox you’d like to get the mail for).:
python manage.py getmail
Now I can run this at the command line locally and it works but if this was deployed to an outside server which was only accessible by a URL how would this command be given?
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Steps to setup a cron job in Django Create a file anywhere within your django's project according to your module directory structure for e.g. myapp/cron.py and define the function which you want to be executed automatically via cron. This will be your cron job. We define a cron just as above.
Cron allows Linux and Unix users to run commands or scripts at a given date and time. You can schedule scripts to be executed periodically. Cron is one of the most useful tool in a Linux or UNIX like operating systems. It is usually used for sysadmin jobs such as backups or cleaning /tmp/ directories and more.
Using django-cron is not the case and cannot be used on Windows, because Windows do not support cron job scheduling. You can use Windows analog of the Unix cron command called "schtasks" to schedule execution of your script or Windows Task Scheduler.
If you are using a virtual env use the python binary from the virtualenv
* * * * * /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python /path/to/project/manage.py management_command
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