Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

Let's create the two scripts and make them run regularly, via the following steps:

1. On the production or staging server, navigate to the project user's home directory where your env and src directories are located.
2. If these don't exist yet, create the commands, db_backups, and logs folders alongside the env directory, as follows:

(env)$ mkdir commands db_backups logs

3. In the commands directory, create a clear_sessions.sh file. You can edit it with a terminal editor, such as vim or nano, adding the following content:

# /home/myproject/commands/clear_sessions.sh#!/usr/bin/env bashSECONDS=0export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=myproject.settings.productionPROJECT_PATH=/home/myprojectREPOSITORY_PATH=${PROJECT_PATH}/src/myprojectLOG_FILE= ...