Issues with running a Python program with Cron

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I am trying to run a Python script called probemon.py in cron (crontab -e) and cannot get it to work. The path to the file is /home/pi/probemon.py and this must be run with the sudo command usually (i.e. sudo python probemon.py). I have tried many methods, including:

52 23   *   *   *    sudo python /home/pi/probemon/probemon.py

and yet nothing works. Any ideas about how to do this?

Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-21 00:21:59Z

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Try adding the command to the sudo-users crontab instead of trying to run it with a sudo from a normal users crontab. I think what happends is that "sudo ..." will ask for the sudo-password, and wait in this stage forever, since noone is providing one.

answered Jan 21, 2018 at 0:21

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