Issue with Planet Cron Job

[Chris Dolan]

On Feb 15, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Rachael wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mike wrote:
> > I have my crontab setup to build my planet feed every so often.  
> The command in crontab is "python /home/user/planet/planet.py /home/ 
> user/planet/technews/config.ini". The problem is I get the error  
> message "Configuration missing [Planet] section." from crontab but  
> when I run it from the command line, it works perfectly. Any ideas?  
> I am running version 2.0 (or the latest non-development release).  
> python -V is Python 2.3.5.
> I had that problem too with planetplanet.
> The i solved it was to put a script containing line in the  
> directory the command works manually and in the ccrontab, invoke  
> that script.
>
> Regards,
> Rachael


My best guess is that you have something important in  
your .profile, .bashrc or .cshrc.  crontab runs with a rather minimal  
shell, so it's likely not picking up a PATH or other EnvVar needed to  
run Planet correctly.  Perhaps you have two versions of python  
installed on your computer?

On my Mac, my python is installed in /sw/bin/python, so my solution  
to the crontab path problem is this line which sources my .profile  
before trying to run the program.

0 16 * * * . /Users/chris/.profile ; /Users/chris/venus/planet.py

Chris

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