[Tutor] running python program on Linux Virtual Server - Plesk?

[Christian Witts]

Michael Yang wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm new to programming and to python. 
>
> I have a program I want to run on my Media Temple Virtual Server (dv) 
> - Linux. which has the latest Plesk 9 virtuozzo installed.
>
> Ultimately I want it to run the program (main.py) on a scheduled 
> basis.  How do I do this?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Mike
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Are you able to run it as a cron job ?  That would be by far the easiest 
solution.

crontab -e
syntax when editing is "minute hour dayOfMonth month dayofWeek command" 
so you would do
0 0-23 * * * python main.py
which would run your python script every hour every day.
Personally, if you do schedule it like this you would better off calling 
a shell script with the cron job and in the shell script listing certain 
environment variables you might need and then calling the script.  The 
job won't be running under your normal user account so you might need to 
add them.

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Kind Regards,
Christian Witts