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

Using Cron to run a python program

2005-11-23 Thread vagrantbrad
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 basically, I've setup dynamic dns using python. Once th