Strange python script behaviour

[Łukasz]

On 4 Sie, 10:02, Loïc Domaigné <loic.domai... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I have a problem with one of my python scripts. When I run this script
> > from command line it works correctly, but if I set up cron to run this
> > script on specified hour it works for a while and then "[Errno 32]
> > Broken pipe" error occures (always).
>
> > The strangest thing is that if I change command in CRON
>
> > from
> > python /home/xxx/script.py
> > to
> > python /home/xxx/script.py  > /tmp/script.log 2>&1
>
> > the script always works correctly!!!
>
> > The question is WHY? Any ideas?
>
> This is a cron issue, and has little with python to do.
>
> By default, cron will email the output produced by your script, unless
> you redirect. It does so by pipe to a "mail" program. Your error seems
> to indicate a problem with the latter (perhaps you don't have any
> "mail" program installed).
>

Hmm... interesting, but logical explanation. Cron has its weird
issues. I guess I have to redirect outputs of all my scripts to /dev/
null in order to prevent them from this kind of error.

Thanks for help :)