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I use django-background-tasks to run some heavy tasks in the background in my Django application. On my local machine everything works fine. However, if I deploy my application in production with Apache and mod_wsgi, the scheduled tasks are not executed. Instead, if I run the command

python manage.py process_tasks

in some terminal, the message

'Failed to retrieve tasks. Database unreachable.'

is printed every 5 sec or so.

What am I doing wrong? Where/how am I supposed to run "python manage.py process_tasks"?

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You need to use cron service

 * * * * * /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python /path/to/project/manage.py process_tasks

you can learn more https://opensource.com/article/17/11/how-use-cron-linux

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This just repeatedly executes the process_tasks command, while still getting the 'Failed to retrieve tasks. Database unreachable.' error.

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