runcrons is once-and-for-all?

The following cron job class is intended to send email every min once running “runcrons” command. But in fact, it only sends out one email every time I run runcrons command (instead of send one email per minute). That defeats the purpose of cron… Am I missing something?

class TestCron(CronJobBase): schedule = Schedule(run_every_mins=1) code = ‘test_cron_philip’

def do(self):
    send_mail('cron test', 'body is test body', '[e-mail]',
              ['[e-mail]'],fail_silently=False)

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This is like creating cron job on top of another cron job.

[craiglabenz]

@shivamsinghal212 The idea is that your window task scheduler will invoke python manage.py runcrons very regularly – say, every minute, or every 5 minutes. django-cron then internally maintains the schedule of your jobs, launching each as necessary. This allows you to easily keep said schedules inside your application code and thus inside version control.