Tracking jobs in Django site administration

[inspiralpatterns]

Hi @kraiz

I scheduled a job using crontab and I would like to keep track of it in the Django site administration. I used to have a scheduled job using cron and I can see each performed task as I run

python manage.py migrate django_cron

If I try to do the same with django_crontab, I get: CommandError: App 'django_crontab' does not have migrations.
Is there a way to do something alike?
Thank you!

[kraiz]

Hey, django-crontab do not come with models or admins. There's just a subcommand to list current jobs on the console with:

python manage.py crontab show

If you want to keep track on your task execution from within the django admin i suggest to define a model yourself and create a result instance of it in your task.

I indeed experimented with a database-based alternative of django-crontab in django-command-scheduler. It collected success state with stdout/stderr output per defined task. I didn't use it for long and abandoned it in the end while django-crontab received more 'traffic'.

[inspiralpatterns]

Hey @kraiz, thank you for your answer.
So, how can I do if I would like to see some printed output like print('It does something.') so that I'm sure my function works properly?
Thanks.

[kraiz]

You can define a command suffix to pipe stdout into a file. Have a look at #51

[inspiralpatterns]

Yes, that is actually what I did.
I looked at CRONJOBS and I implemented format 1:
CRONJOBS = [ ('*/5 * * * *', 'tracking.api.cron.KeywordUpdate', '>> /tmp/scheduled_job.log') ]

and put inside KeywordUpdate method:
self.stdout.write('Successfull end "KeywordUpdate" at %s' % now())

If I prompt python manage.py crontab show I can see:
Currently active jobs in crontab: 599e0f3799cc6b33b2f9e98897e1d6c9 -> (u'*/5 * * * *', u'tracking.api.cron.KeywordUpdate', u'>> /tmp/scheduled_job.log')

but I don't see any log. How is it possible?
Or should I define a CRONTAB_COMMAND_SUFFIX inside settings.py?
I'm quite new to this, sorry for that.

[inspiralpatterns]

Maybe is this such a case as the one in #14?
I'm using pythonAnywhere as well.

[kraiz]

Oh, then this is probably the problem.