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timbram
timbram

Reputation: 1865

Python - Ubuntu Server

I am wanting to write my first Python script for my Ubuntu VPS and I was wondering the best way to go about doing it. This script will send me a message every 30 minutes through my gmail account.

Originally, in my head I envisioned a Python script that would just always be running and then would email me once every 30 minutes, like a daemon I guess. Can you run a Python script like a daemon?

Now that I think about it more though, it may be better to just have a python script that is designed to be executed by crontab.

Which approach do you think is best? I realize sending an email every 30 min is an almost useless task but it is something I can build on.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

taesu
taesu

Reputation: 4580

The simple approach is to write your python script to use smtplib. 

def sendEmail(*args):
   #send email

Here is a simple tutorial for using smtplib

Then have cron or bash script to evoke this script every 30 minutes.
Here is a simple tutorial on cron

Personally I would just use smtplib + bash script. and the bash script would look something like:

while true
do
 python sendmail.py
 sleep 1800
done

Upvotes: 1

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