/etc/crontab won't run my script

Ghirai ghirai at ghirai.com
Fri Apr 24 15:08:13 UTC 2009


Hi,

I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it
won't work.

I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my
script uses no paths at all.

This is my /etc/crontab line:

*/5     *       *       *       *
munin   /usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py >> /var/log/myscript.log

I used munin user because i already have it (can i run it under
'nobody'?).

This is what /var/log/cron says:

Apr 24 18:00:01 triton /usr/sbin/cron[4361]: (munin) CMD
(/usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py
>> /var/log/myscript.log)


However the script doesn't seem to run at all.

Obviously it works if i run it stand-alone, as any user.
I'm running 7.1-RELEASE-p4, i386.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Ghirai.


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