Issue with Planet Cron Job

Hi,

Mike wrote:
 > I have my crontab setup to build my planet feed every
so often. The 
command in crontab is "python
/home/user/planet/planet.py 
/home/user/planet/technews/config.ini". The problem is
I get the error 
message "Configuration missing [Planet] section."
from crontab but when 
I run it from the command line, it works perfectly. Any
ideas? I am 
running version 2.0 (or the latest non-development release).
python -V 
is Python 2.3.5.
I had that problem too with planetplanet.
The i solved it was to put a script containing line in the
directory the 
command works manually and in the ccrontab, invoke that
script.

Regards,
Rachael
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On Feb 15, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Rachael wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mike wrote:
> > I have my crontab setup to build my planet feed
every so often.  
> The command in crontab is "python
/home/user/planet/planet.py /home/ 
> user/planet/technews/config.ini". The problem is I
get the error  
> message "Configuration missing [Planet]
section." from crontab but  
> when I run it from the command line, it works
perfectly. Any ideas?  
> I am running version 2.0 (or the latest non-development
release).  
> python -V is Python 2.3.5.
> I had that problem too with planetplanet.
> The i solved it was to put a script containing line in
the  
> directory the command works manually and in the
ccrontab, invoke  
> that script.
>
> Regards,
> Rachael


My best guess is that you have something important in  
your .profile, .bashrc or .cshrc.  crontab runs with a
rather minimal  
shell, so it's likely not picking up a PATH or other EnvVar
needed to  
run Planet correctly.  Perhaps you have two versions of
python  
installed on your computer?

On my Mac, my python is installed in /sw/bin/python, so my
solution  
to the crontab path problem is this line which sources my
.profile  
before trying to run the program.

0 16 * * * . /Users/chris/.profile ;
/Users/chris/venus/planet.py

Chris

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