Problem running Python script as cron job

William R. Dickson wrd at awenet.com
Mon Apr 10 15:43:39 EDT 2000


In article <0004071555090M.01234 at quadra.teleo.net>, Patrick Phalen 
<python-list at teleo.net> wrote:

> [William R. Dickson, on Fri, 07 Apr 2000]
> :: Anybody know of any issues with running python scripts from Cron?
> 
> No. I've had multiple Python scripts running every one, two, five and
> ten minutes around the clock for years on multiple servers without
> problems.
> 
> I'd suspect you might have a bug lurking.

I think so too, but I can't find it, because the script runs flawlessly 
every time I run it by hand, and the buffer never flushes the output to 
the log when it's run by Cron.

Blorg.

-Bill



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