How to Schedule a Python Script with a Cron Job
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Learn how to schedule a Python script with a cronjob including simple code examples that teach you the basic concepts of cron scheduling.
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absolutely efficient video in less than 10 minutes, thanks for sharing it!
thanks for the video, you deserve more views! please keep posting regularly.
Thank you very much Yassine!
Exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks for the video, Really helped me to solve the issue. I was having in getting my crontab to run Unfortunately,
I wasn't including the "/usr/bin/python3".
Great Work!!
Great video, thanks! I was able to follow along and make it all work. Now if I could just make a script run in cron using "@ reboot" instead of explicit schedule.
Great Hand On here, thanks Tony
My corn job is initialized but I am not getting new entries. Can you guide me through.
Thanks for the video great content! What camera are you using 🤔 for your vids?
Wait this is @CodeWithHarry video ... Did you just stole it ??
Thank you for this video. I have been looking for some easy ways to get things to automatically execute. You didn't really explain more about crontabs later in the video, but I think I got what it does. How do you get this cron job to execute on startup? And do you have to manually kill it somehow if you don't want it to run? Does it die if you kill the term window or do you have to manually kill it? Subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work!
It's not possible to execute a cronjob on startup. They are only meant to be executed a fixed intervals. You do have the option of manually killing the job, but that's not a good solution if you find yourself needing to do that on more than one occasion. Does that make sense? Thanks for subscribing :)
@@TonyTeachesTech thanks Tony. Yeah. That makes sense. I am looking into writing a report system that connects to google sheet every day at 6pm and runs some statistics on it to deliver a pdf to your email the morning after. That’s why I was thinking a cronjob would be beneficial. What happens if the machine that runs it reboots though?🤷♂️
@@MartinAaberge If the machine boots when the job is supposed to run, then you'll miss that job, but the next time that it's scheduled to run it will resume without issue
I thought you could use @reboot?
If a cronjob is running a python script every minute then What will happen if it takes more than a minute to finish the execution of business logic of python script ? Before starting a new cronjob on next minute what will happen to previous process which is still under execution ? It will be killed by OS and new cronjob process will start or what ?
Both cronjobs will run in that case. You can try to implement a cronjob lock to prevent that from happening ma.ttias.be/prevent-cronjobs-from-overlapping-in-linux/
Thanks alot, this one worked for me.
Well explained, it helps!
I have a python script that i want to run every 6 hours. but the thing is it needs some packages that are intalled in a virtual environment. how do i run that ?
should i be activating it and running it or what do i do ? I am confused
Hi Tony I’m able to execute a py script via an interpreter and likewise in terminal window but crontab just doesn’t run it even though I’ve entered the absolute paths for both python & the py script. I suspect it has something to do with what you said at the end of the video.
Damm this is a godlike vídeo, good job!!🙏
Glad you liked it!
getting an error: '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted' could this be an issue with my mac not having proper access?
thank you! it's good for me
Very noob question, when you say: Let's save that script and then your screen just changes from the page you were editing back to the terminal. What command do you use? I feel stuck in this editing page with the `~`s.
Escape key then “ :wq “ to save your file
thanks for the video
You're welcome!
how can I code like, I want to find the subtraction between the first output and the new output?
thanks buddy
Thanks bro
What if we have to run the script only once
great!
Thanks! Subscribe for more like this from me if you haven't already :)
On Cyberpanel how can we do this to automatically generate SSL, in Cyberpanel there is an option cronjob but it is not working. Kindly make a video on this, Secondly when I add another domain and install ssl it shows Selfsigned ssl error - your SSL will expire in 3666 days, something like this. How can I solve these two major issues, please help me.
Please try these instructions tonyteaches.tech/lets-encrypt-renew-cron/
im not to able to execute the python script from crontab if python is dependent on virtual env. I gave full path of the vir env in crontab and also used source command to activate . But none worked out in cron. If i run manually in shell it is working fine. If anyone can help me it will be much appreciable
Try moving the whole folder into the home directory
Lifesaver
but what when my project has dependencies
I think you make things more complicated
Today I am late
Better late than never :)
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@@harrisandreson I'm very happy to hear that
Hi Tony, maybe you might be able to help me solve some mystery, on my MacBook Pro, i have my cronjob set up like this and it works like a charm : * * * * * cd /Desktop/Scripts && /usr/bin/python3 cron_job.py
Now few weeks ago i got a mac mini to purposely run my cron jobs since the job hs to run daily and requires the device to always be plugged in which isn't too good for the battery of my laptop, now the same cronjob setting refuses to work on the Mac mini, i've tried every single possible solution including yours in this vid but still doesn't work, i however notice that when i run the command "which python3", it point to the python in '/opt/homebrew/bin/python3", i don't know if that could be the root cause of my problem? using that path in my cronjob doesn't solve the problem either. Do you have any suggestion that might help?
Try replacing /usr/bin/python3 with /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 so that your script uses Hombrew's version of Python
Didn't the sure say they already tried that?
You gotta do a little better. You should have done "cmd >> /tmp/log". You always append
What would that do? Help the bash noobs!