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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers CRONTAB - one python script is not running Post 302945257 by bakunin on Wednesday 27th of May 2015 03:45:20 PM
Old 05-27-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartocham
Do you have any idea why it is acting like that?
As it is, no, but i am astonished that even the other scripts work. cronjobs are usually started from "init" (process number 0) and the environment of init is usually empty, especially the variable PATH is not set. This means that "python" should not work, only "/some/path/to/python". Find out where the python executable is by calling:

Code:
which python

(depending on your shell you might replace "which" with "whence" or "whereis") and put the displayed path in the cron call, like this (analoguously for the other entries):

Code:
*/1 * * * * /some/path/to/python /home/pi/meteo/imag.py

For the same reasons there could be other environment contents which the script is missing when being called from cron. Enter "set" at the command prompt to display the whole environment of your shell to find out. You will have to set them in the script in this case.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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