What permissions/environment setting are needed to run the send_email_alerts?

The documentation is kind of light on this and I ran into problems with "environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined"

http://askbot.org/doc/management-commands.html

The reason you get that error is that the settings.py file is not on on the python path when the script is executed.

There is a sample job file askbot/cron/askbot_cron_job, where PYTHONPATH is modified.

I've relabeled your post as "bug" because the deployment command must ideally configure those jobs automatically.

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Evgeny

answered 2011-02-23 18:17:27 -0600

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Thanks I ended up using the following: """PROJECT_PARENT_DIR=/var/www export PYTHONPATH=$PROJECT_PARENT_DIR:$PYTHONPATH #these are actual commands that are to be run python $PROJECT_PARENT_DIR/manage.py send_email_alerts """

tfoote (2011-02-24 16:37:28 -0600) edit

good. the reason the comment formatting is off is that the two $ signs initiate mathjax rendering. I think if you back-slash escape them the problem should go away. Otherwise, there is no easy fix at this time.

Evgeny (2011-02-24 16:42:26 -0600) edit

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What permissions/environment setting are needed to run the send_email_alerts?