Can't installtasks because of IOError

[matthewgo]

I'm getting an IOError of "Please specify user or filename to write" when I try to register the tasks with cron. This is raised in the crontab.py file. The crontab app was downloaded along with the installation of kronos.

I got the showtasks and runtasks command to run but I can register the tasks using the installtasks command

Do you guys have an idea how to solve this?.

[matthewgo]

I am using Windows btw.

[jppineda]

Any solution for this issue?

[jgorset]

Kronos isn't tested on windows. In fact, does Windows even have cron?

[SteveByerly]

Python-Crontab does work with Windows, but only offers two non-system methods (tabfile and tab), neither of which are setup to be used with kronos. See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-crontab#how-to-use-the-module

There might be some way to add this functionality to kronos, but not as it's currently setup since kronos installs new tasks with:
tab = crontab.CronTab(user=True)

I think this issue can be closed.

[AnandMoorthy]

Hello folks,

I am also facing the this kind of error, when i execute

python manage.py installtasks

When i execute this command via python script using subprocess throwing an error

raise IOError("Read crontab %s: %s" % (self.user, err))
IOError: Read crontab nobody: You (nobody) are not allowed to use this program (/usr/bin/crontab)

So, is installtasks command running via nobody user? or any explanation to this problem?

[jgorset]

Sounds like you're running python manage.py installtasks with a user that doesn't have permission to add or read the crontab, @AnandMoorthy.