Unable to launch python script on startup
June 27, 2024, 18:59
I orignially have my script starting up on boot via adding it to "sudo crontab -e", now ive gotten a new pi (same model and ver)
yet it dosent work, i have tried a few other options yet none seem to quite work?
Is the script executable?
it is a .py
sorry i should of said that
permission to execute it is set to everyone
Only to everyone?
There are two different crontab one that run the "global/system" crontab and then you have a user specific crontab. And the "systems crontab" doesn't have the same environment as the "users crontab".
A workaround this is to specify the user in the systems crontab with the command, ex:
* username /path/to/your/script.py
Or you can put the script into the "users crontab" file by editing the "users crontab", ex:
sudo crontab -u username -e
i tried both of these yet they dont work, i assume im meant to put something instead of the * in the first command?
and the users crontab didnt work :/
i was thinking of converting it to a shell script and trying to run it that way? but idk if that would be the correct thing to do
An advice, as you can't see what is happening I often implement logging in the script so I know where it fails. As it is now is like to help a blind man over a crossing and the blind man doesn't know where he want's to go.
You need to provide more info (code) and do logging as to trouble shoot your issues.
(old but didnt work either way)
the python script itself runs fine
rather its just getting it to run on startup
i can always launch it mnaully afterrwards and it always works
ii can compile it yet no joy there either
cant build it
no python :/
And pictures of text is something I cant read that well !