Re: Using Cron to run a python program

2005-11-24 Thread vagrantbrad
You were right!! I had a relative path to the update.log file, so I looked in the home path of the cron environment and found the update.log file that the cron job was writing to. I updated my program to point to the absolute path of the update.log file that I wanted the logs written to, and now

Re: Using Cron to run a python program

2005-11-24 Thread Frithiof Andreas Jensen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > permissions just to be safe. What would cause the logging to work at a > command prompt but fail in cron? Because the environment is different; "man cron" might tell *how* it is different (I cannot because it varies with platf

Re: Using Cron to run a python program

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Holden
Carsten Haese wrote: > On 23 Nov 2005 16:23:11 -0800, vagrantbrad wrote > >>I'm using python 2.4 running on Fedora Core 4. I have written a python >>program called ipscan.py that checks the external ip address of my >>cable internet connection, and on change, will update the dns records >>at my d

Re: Using Cron to run a python program

2005-11-23 Thread Carsten Haese
On 23 Nov 2005 16:23:11 -0800, vagrantbrad wrote > I'm using python 2.4 running on Fedora Core 4. I have written a python > program called ipscan.py that checks the external ip address of my > cable internet connection, and on change, will update the dns records > at my dns provider, zoneedit. So