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POCrontab wont run python script
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copied!<p>When I execute my python script from the command line I have no problems like so:</p> <blockquote> <p>[rv@med240-183 db]$ python formatdb.py<br> [rv@med240-183 db]$</p> </blockquote> <p>When I try to use crontab to run the script every midnight I get a series of errors:</p> <pre><code>import: unable to open X server `' @ import.c/ImportImageCommand/367. /home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/formatdb.py: line 2: from: command not found /home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/formatdb.py: line 3: from: command not found import: unable to open X server `' @ import.c/ImportImageCommand/367. /home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/formatdb.py: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/formatdb.py: line 6: `conx = MySQLdb.connect (user = 'root', passwd = '******', db = 'vaxijen_antigens')' </code></pre> <p>The directory of my script is as follows:</p> <blockquote> <p>/home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/</p> </blockquote> <p>Crontab looks like:</p> <pre><code>SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/python/:/home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/database_backup:/home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/ MAILTO="******" HOME=/ # For details see man 4 crontabs # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | .------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ... # | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat # | | | | | # * * * * * command to be executed 0 0 * * * root /home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/database_backup/backup.py 0 0 * * * root /home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/formatdb.py </code></pre> <p>and my python script looks like:</p> <pre><code>import MySQLdb from subprocess import call from subprocess import Popen import re conx = MySQLdb.connect (user = 'root', passwd = '******', db = 'vaxijen_antigens') cursor = conx.cursor() cursor.execute('select * from sequence') row = cursor.fetchall() f = open('vdatabase.fasta', 'w') for i in row: f.write('>'+i[0].strip()+'\n') #f.write(i[1].strip().replace(' ','')+'\n') s = re.sub(r'[^\w]','',str(i[1])) s = ''.join(s) for k in range(0, len(s), 60): f.write('%s\n' % (s[k:k+60])) f.write('\n') f.close Popen(["formatdb", "-p", "T", "-i", "vdatabase.fasta"]).wait() </code></pre>

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