Re: [Tutor] crontab or python mistake

2006-05-26 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Am Freitag, den 26.05.2006, 08:32 +0100 schrieb Alan Gauld: > > > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ' emmssg.txt' > > > > > the emmssg.txt file is in the /root/script directory so i > > don't know why it cant find it. > > The file may be there but crontab isn't. It runs the program

Re: [Tutor] crontab or python mistake

2006-05-26 Thread Alan Gauld
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ' emmssg.txt' > > the emmssg.txt file is in the /root/script directory so i > don't know why it cant find it. The file may be there but crontab isn't. It runs the program as root and root's home directory is /. For this kind of thing you need to

Re: [Tutor] crontab or python mistake

2006-05-25 Thread Yi Qiang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel McQuay wrote, On 05/25/2006 09:24 PM: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/root/scripts/boxster_school_smtp.py", line 19, in ? >mssg = open('mssg.txt', 'r').read() > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ' emmssg.txt' > Ri

[Tutor] crontab or python mistake

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel McQuay
hello list,i am having a problem getting crontab to execute a python script. the script works because i can execute it by using: python boxster_school_smtp.py from a command line. i put a line in crontab that look like this: i know this is not a linux mailing list but any help would be appreciated.