In message <21ddcf54-e64c-411e-835f-a2d06644dfa0 at x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, Astley Le Jasper wrote: > The trouble is that obviously I get no console when using crontab so > can't see any traceback. Cron normally sends you mail if a cron task generated any output (this should include error messages).