i'm trying to schedule my pythohn script into Centos 7 with cron.
On my script at start i have added this:
#!/usr/local/bin/python
and this is my cron file that i have create into folder that contain python file
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python /home/Documents/SCRAPE_PYTHON/SCRAPE.py &>> /home/Desktop/log.txt
i have try to run the script into terminal by chmod +x and works fine.
But whit this configuration when in terminal i set crontab .cron the job doesn't work. The log file set into cron file are not write and script not run. The script could be write some data into db and the db is always empty.
Any help???
Thanks
Type crontab -e in the shell, this will open the cron editor. Here copy paste the entire command.
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python /home/Documents/SCRAPE_PYTHON/SCRAPE.py &>> /home/Desktop/log.txt
Now press Esc key then type colon :wq! and press Enter key. This will install your cron. Your cron should run every 5 minutes.
Your standard output and error will be appended to /home/Desktop/log.txt.
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On my Raspberry I try to run a Python script as a cronjob. The script does run and execute perfect via the console when I ask him to. However I cannot manage to run the task in cron. Why is this cronjob not working?
What I’ve did so far
Logged in as root user
Granted all rights at the .py file in the Finder to anybody and chmodded the file to 777
Edited both sudo crontab -e and crontab -e files and I did edit the /etc/crontab file (they are three different files(?!)).
Tested crons with each of the below cron codes (I did reboot after every edit).
Checked the error log /var/log/syslog/ and saw no errors regarding these cron tasks.
Tested with an output file: >> /home/root/Desktop/pi.log 2>&1. That didn’t provide me output.
cronjob commands
/2 * * * * Python /home/root/Desktop/pi.py
/2 * * * * /usr/bin/python /home/root/Desktop/pi.py
/2 * * * * cd /home/root/Desktop/ Python pi.py
The Python script is a bit long. The main function is to retreive data from a usb device and store this in an sql database. See full code : https://github.com/gejanssen/slimmemeter-rpi/blob/master/p1db/p1uitlezerdb-ESMR50.py
I've got a python file called color.py that if I run using python color.py will work on a file. I can run it okay from the terminal but it doesn't get called from crontab. I've used chmod +x color.py to try and make it executable.
The py file does start with
#!/usr/bin/env python
and the cron command is
*/1 * * * * /root/images/color.py
First check if following command works by running as user root (su or sudo):
/usr/bin/python /root/images/color.py
If that works, then edit crontab to:
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/python /root/images/color.py
How do you check if the cron job succeeds or not?
I am creating a cron job to execute a python script
hello.py
a = 'a cron job was executed here'
text_file = open('output_hello.txt', 'w')
text_file.write(a)
text_file.close()
Works fine if I execute via terminal, I am on ubuntu 15.10.
My cron job file is:
* * * * * /usr/bin/python /home/rohit/hello.py
(excluding the #)
I am a root user and creating the job in /var/spool/cron
The issue is that it is not executing the script. I don't know why.
One does not simply modify the crontab, you run the command:
crontab -e
and edit from there. Execute the above command using sudo if you want it to run as root.
Assuming your paths are correct, your script may not have the right environment or it may not be executable. Ensure your script starts with:
#!/usr/bin/python
And also that you then give execute permission to that script:
chmod a+x hello.py
Ensure you use crontab -e and if you have any doubts about your syntax, you can find more info here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto
I tried using cron to start python script , at boot (as mentioned in the link).Running a python script At Boot using cron
I made a python script "hello.py":
#!usr/bin/env python
import time
print "Hello World!"
time.sleep(10)
Then chmod +x hello.py.
I checked,if it running or not,it is giving me output.
I used crontab -e command and added the line #reboot python /home/pi/hello.py &.
Reboot using sudo reboot , but nothing happened! I am newbie .Although I read many discussions but I am not able to fix that!
Generally when I want to verify whether a cronjob ran or not, I redirect all output to a log file like so:
12 0 * * * python /Path/To/File.py > /Path/ToLog/log 2>&1
Then you can check this log timestamp and for its contents
I'm trying to schedule a python script to run every minute or every hour.
What I did so far :
crontab -e
In the crontab file I added
* * * * * /usr/bin/python /path/to/script/script.py
After I save the file I get the message
crontab: installing new crontab
However crontab is not running the script.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Diez
I found the problem, I will put here the solution maybe it helps someone.
I tried putting in crontab -e * * * * * /usr/bin/python /path/to/script/script.py >>/tmp/script.out 2>&1 as Rafal suggested however the output was blank.
I read a lot about crontab last night and I found out that if you use a script with crontab and you write your output in a certain file you will need to modify your script and input the exact path for the file. If you don't put the full path the script will work when you run it manually. The script will still work if you run it with crontab but it won't know where to place its output.
So modifying
with open('output.txt', 'a') as f
with
with open('/path/to/file/output.txt', 'a') as f
did the job for me.
Thanks,
Diez
Depending on the script (e.g. scripts which prints a message to the console) you won't be able to distinguish whether the script is running or not.
You can assure that crontab is running correctly by typing in the console:
tail -f /var/log/syslog