Issue with django/postgresql when django started from cron - django

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Edit to ask who thought that this question had anything to do with the "possibly related" one.
I have a fairly simple django (1.11) project using the rest_framework that works fine when I start it from the command line, typing
nohup python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:4448 &
on centos. Connects to a postgresql database, with
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'my_database',
'USER': 'my_user',
#'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
' PORT': '5432',
}
}
in my settings.py file. However if I set up the runserver command to run at boot time from a cron I get the following when I send a request to the application:
... lot of stuff
django.db.utils.OperationalError: could not connect to server: Connection
refused
Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
and in my pg_hba file I have
IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32
trust # local host
host all all 10.2.11.53/32
trust
host all my_user 0.0.0.0/0 trust
and also I have
netstat -plunt | grep post
tcp 0 0 10.2.11.53:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
867/postmaster
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
867/postmaster
Any suggestion?
Thanks,
a
PS The full traceback:
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function wrapper at 0x1a11230>
Performing system checks...
[<RegexURLPattern batch-batch-done ^batch/batch-done/$>, <RegexURLPattern batch-load-urls ^batch/load-urls/$>, <RegexURLPattern batch-request-batch ^batch/request-batch/$>, <RegexURLPattern batch-schedule-job ^batch/schedule-job/$>]
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 227, in wrapper
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 128, in inner_run
self.check_migrations()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 422, in check_migrations
executor = MigrationExecutor(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS])
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 20, in __init__
self.loader = MigrationLoader(self.connection)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/loader.py", line 52, in __init__
self.build_graph()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/loader.py", line 209, in build_graph
self.applied_migrations = recorder.applied_migrations()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/recorder.py", line 65, in applied_migrations
self.ensure_schema()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/recorder.py", line 52, in ensure_schema
if self.Migration._meta.db_table in self.connection.introspection.table_names(self.connection.cursor()):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 254, in cursor
return self._cursor()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 229, in _cursor
self.ensure_connection()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 213, in ensure_connection
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 94, in __exit__
six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 213, in ensure_connection
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 189, in connect
self.connection = self.get_new_connection(conn_params)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/postgresql/base.py", line 176, in get_new_connection
connection = Database.connect(**conn_params)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 130, in connect
conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Answer 1

Could you post the full traceback, as well as the cron job itself?
Also, if I understand your question correctly, you are trying to use cron to start your server on boot? If this is the case, you would be better served using something like supervisord to manage your server processes IMO.