Timeline for Python script is not running under cron, despite working when run manually
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| Nov 17, 2019 at 18:48 | comment | added | jww |
+1 for including details like PATH.
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| Nov 17, 2019 at 18:39 | history | edited | jww | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Tweak title.
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| May 11, 2014 at 19:24 | comment | added | Jonathan Leffler |
Seeing usr/bin/python as the error message suggests that somewhere along the line, you've lost a leading slash. Maybe you have #!usr/bin/python in a shebang? Very often, the problem with "it works on the command line but not in cron" comes down to 'environment' — see (amongst others) Perl script works but not via cron.
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| Jun 16, 2011 at 15:28 | history | edited | cfrederich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2011 at 14:22 | vote | accept | cfrederich | ||
| Jun 15, 2011 at 20:13 | history | edited | cfrederich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | James C |
make sure root's email is setup to go somewhere and have a look at any emails this is generating. If you don't have any mail forwarding enabled run the mail command as the root user.
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| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:44 | history | edited | cfrederich |
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| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:31 | comment | added | cfrederich | i found this in the cron log, so its clearly trying to do something | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:31 | comment | added | cfrederich | Jun 15 18:02:01 domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02 CROND[5310]: (root) CMD (/home/ec2-user/cronscripts/testscript.py) Jun 15 18:03:01 domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02 CROND[5317]: (root) CMD (/home/ec2-user/cronscripts/testscript.py) | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:22 | answer | added | amit_g | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:21 | comment | added | hvgotcodes | look in the system logs to see the errors | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 19:16 | history | asked | cfrederich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |