Hello, Run the CRON job with EDITOR=nano crontab -e and make sure you are root. I forget what it must take to become root in our new systems. By default, the Debian Stretch Distro does not place us in the root directory. *sudo -i *will do it!
Seth On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 12:35:33 PM UTC-5, Tomas Medina wrote: > > I am trying to write a program that reads the analog values of a sonar on > the Beaglebone Black Wireless (Debian image 2017-07-01). The program runs > fine if executed from the command line, but when I try to run it > automatically at startup (using crontab), the program doesn't run at all > (as indicated by a grep command). Here is the relevant code: > > from time import sleepimport Adafruit_BBIO.ADC as ADC > ADC.setup() > while True: > sonar = ADC.read(pin) > print sonar > sleep(.5) > > Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/fe949363-6ac8-48ab-b3de-aef7412134c8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
