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klautern
klautern

Reputation: 139

SyntaxError if executed with cron, OK if manually

I'm trying to schedule a script with cron in kubuntu. If I execute the script manually line by line, it goes just fine, but scheduled with cron it raises the following SyntaxError:

  File "/opt/django/myproject/myapp/cron/test.sh", line 4
    python manage.py mycustomcommand
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The content of the script test.sh is as following:

#!/bin/bash
source /opt/virtualenvs/myvirtualenv/bin/activate
cd /opt/django/myproject
python manage.py mycustomcommand

Basically the script activates a virtual enviroment where django is installed, then accesses to my project path, and then executes a custom django command. As said, this works fine if I do it manually.

I tried to schedule the script in cron with normal and root permissions also ("crontab -e" and "sudo crontab -e")

Any idea? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 722

Answers (1)

freakish
freakish

Reputation: 56477

The error suggests that you fire the command python manage.py mycustomcommand from within the Python interpreter (and not as a bash command).

You probably have something like

1 * * * * python /path/to/myscript/test.sh

in your crontab entry which is a mistake and it should be

1 * * * * /path/to/myscript/test.sh

instead.

Upvotes: 4

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