On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Vincent Vande Vyvre <vincent.vandevy...@swing.be> wrote: > Le 18/05/2013 19:59, Chris Angelico a écrit : > >> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 3:35 AM, woooee <woo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The obvious question, do you have the shebang on the first line so the >>> OS knows it's to be run as a Python program? >> >> That won't make any difference; the cron job specifically stipulates >> the interpreter. It just needs to be done with a full path. >> >> ChrisA > > Not necessary, I use crontab without problem with this line: > > 25 16 18 5 * export DISPLAY=:0 & LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.utf-8" Lang="fr_FR.utf-8" > python /usr/bin/qarte -a 1 > > ... on Ubuntu.
Everything's configurable. I'd like to hear back from the OP though; as Roy said, checking 'env' from a cron job will reveal much. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list