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Reputation: 20409

How to know when cron task was run last time?

I have the following task:

- description: Task is run every 2 hours
  url: /task
  schedule: every 2 hours synchronized

Is there any way to know in my python code when it was run last time (date and time)? The idea I have now is to store that in memcache when it is finished to run. But is there any other better way?

PS. Another problem I have is with the case when memcache is empty. How can I calculate when last run was?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2392

Answers (2)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1122182

You can't, not without storing the information of the last run somewhere. Cron, by itself, does not track that for you.

Upvotes: 3

bobthyasian
bobthyasian

Reputation: 943

Why not add an extra bit of code to the file that is ran that creates a log, like a text file?

Upvotes: 2

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