linuxcronubuntu-12.04

CronJob not running


I have set up a cronjob for root user in ubuntu environment as follows by typing crontab -e

  34 11 * * * sh /srv/www/live/CronJobs/daily.sh
  0 08 * * 2 sh /srv/www/live/CronJobs/weekly.sh
  0 08 1 * * sh /srv/www/live/CronJobs/monthly.sh

But the cronjob does not run. I have tried checking if the cronjob is running using pgrep cron and that gives process id 3033. The shell script calls a python file and is used to send an email. Running the python file is ok. There's no error in it but the cron doesn't run. The daily.sh file has the following code in it.

python /srv/www/live/CronJobs/daily.py
python /srv/www/live/CronJobs/notification_email.py
python /srv/www/live/CronJobs/log_kpi.py

Solution

  • The solution for me was to avoid relative paths. Never use relative path in Python scripts to be executed via crontab.

    I did something like this instead:

    import os
    import sys
    import time, datetime
    
    CLASS_PATH = '/srv/www/live/mainapp/classes'
    SETTINGS_PATH = '/srv/www/live/foodtrade'
    sys.path.insert(0, CLASS_PATH)
    sys.path.insert(1,SETTINGS_PATH)
    
    import other_py_files
    

    Also, never suppress the crontab code; instead use mailserver and check the mail for the user. That gives clearer insights of what is going.