On 7 October 2015 at 22:06, Anders Lundstedt <[email protected]> wrote: > A python script I have depends on the requests2 package. I can run the > script using > > nix-shell --pure -p python3 -p python3Packages.requests2 --run ./my-script.py > > > However when putting this line as a cron job I get the cron output: > > error: Nix database directory ‘/nix/var/nix/db’ is not writable: > Permission denied > > > What solutions are there to run a simple script with dependencies as a > cron job, other than to add the script as a package?
I think that means the cron job does not have the environment variable NIX_REMOTE set to "daemon". Try setting it, one way or the other, and the command should work. - Bjørn _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
