CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pathcronenvironment-variablessynology
Bijan
Bijan

Reputation: 8612

Cronjob: Command Not Found

I have a cronjob that is the following:

*/10    *   *   *   *   root    cd /some/directory && python3 FILE.py >> Output.txt 2>&1

if i run that command from a regular command line, it works fine. But when ran from cronjob, I get /bin/sh: python3: not found

But when I run echo $PATH it returns

/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/syno/sbin:/usr/syno/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/python3/bin:/opt/bin

(Note that /usr/local/python3/bin is included in this directory

How do I fix this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3655

Answers (2)

jkimo2
jkimo2

Reputation: 11

Since the environnemnt variable are not used when crontab is running either you create them in your script... ...BUT YOU CAN ALSO check if /bin/python exits (or /sbin/python) and replace python with the one that exists :

*/10    *   *   *   *   root    cd /some/directory && /bin/python3 FILE.py >> Output.txt 2>&1

or

*/10    *   *   *   *   root    cd /some/directory && /sbin/python3 FILE.py >> Output.txt 2>&1

Upvotes: 1

user5631568
user5631568

Reputation:

It seems like cronjob has a different environment than your interactive shell. You could edit the cronjob to use an absolute path to call that python script. Or you can write a wrapper sh script to setup exactly the environment required by the python script and have cronjob execute that.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions