[Pythonmac-SIG] py-appscript problem in crontab

[Ned Deily]

In article <47C775CE.1010005 at wheel.org>,
 tom wible <airdrummer at wheel.org> wrote:

> i give up: crontab no longer executes python:-P
> 
> 
> 33      21       *       *       *       /usr/bin/osascript 
> /DVR/scripts/noLiveEyeTV.scpt
> 
> works fine:
> 
>  From dvr at wiblesdvr.localhost  Thu Feb 28 21:33:02 2008
> From: dvr at wiblesdvr.localhost (Cron Daemon)
> 
> but
> 
> 52      21      *       *       *       /DVR/scripts/noLiveEyeTV.py
> 
> doesn't...even if it failed, i would have gotten email, as i did when i 1st 
> started...wtf?

In your first posting, your script was written using /usr/bin/env:

#! /usr/bin/env python

That leaves you at the mercy of whatever PATH has been set to.  

Suggest you change the cron table entry to explicitly invoke the python 
you want, so (all on one line, of course):

52  21 [...] 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python  
/DVR/scripts/noLiveEyeTV.py

The MacPython installer creates symlinks in /usr/local/bin:

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/python
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  68 Feb 23 15:45 /usr/local/bin/python -> 
../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python

so the crontab line could be simplified to:
[...] /usr/local/bin/python /DVR/scripts[...]

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org