Linux and Python scripts, help needed

[Ron Stephens]

Thanks i will try this ;-)))


Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Stephens" <rdsteph at earthlink.net>
> 
> > Hmmm, thanks for your comments. I just noticed that in my syslogs
> > there was an attempt to open /etc/news/inn.conf that failed. So I
> > just went in and chown 'ed that file to be owned by me rather than
> > root.
> 
> That's not the right solution; /etc/news/inn.conf should not be
> writable by "world".  You need to find out why/what tried to open it.
> 
> > I don't know if that is part of the problem. But in general, I
> > am finding that almost nothing I try to do with respect to running
> > Python scripts using crontab works at first, simply because of all
> > the permission stuff. So I change ownership and rights a lot.
> 
> Bad sign.  Your crontab runs with your user credentials, so anything
> you can do, it can do.  The problem here is usually environment
> variables which are set differently.
> 
> > But I didn't even know that /etc/news/inn.conf was needed, and maybe
> > it isn't!
> 
> Shouldn't be, if you aren't calling inn as an external program.
> 
> > I wonder what else is needed but not owned or allowed by my
> > user? How does one ever get any real work done when unknown
> > permission and file ownership problems lurk under every hidden log
> > ;-))))
> 
> In general anything that works at your command line can be made to
> work in your crontab.  Implement the logging as described in my
> previous post and see what happens.