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This is the crontab we use, which he described: - we use bash - the file config/bash_env has most of what is usually in .bashrc; for cron we source it, for shell we source it in .bashrc - "daily.py --use_defaults" is the command that we want to run - don't forget that early inclusion of matplotlib.use('Agg') ## here is the relevant part of crontab # m h dom mon dow command 40 20 * * * (cd $HOME; . config/bash_env; daily.py --use_defaults) > $HOME/tmp/cron.log 2>& 1 Reference for matplotlib.use('Agg'): http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html?highlight=agg#generate-images-without-having-a-window-popup Jules ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users