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    copied!<p>I know there have been plenty of questions about this, but I've been trying things for a while with no luck. I have a simple python testscript that creates a folder with a timestamped name. It works perfectly when I run it manually, but nothing happens when I try to put it into crontab. Any idea where I'm messing up here? Here's the script: (located in /home/ec2-user/cronscripts)</p> <pre><code>from subprocess import call from time import time import math call(["mkdir","derp" +str(math.floor(time()))]) </code></pre> <p>and crontab -l produces the output</p> <pre><code>* * * * * python /home/ec2-user/cronscripts/testscript.py </code></pre> <p>I've tried putting 'root' into the command as well, but no dice. I've also tried some to mess around with explicitly setting the PATH variable in the script file.</p> <pre><code>From root@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal Wed Jun 15 19:57:01 2011 Return-Path: &lt;root@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal&gt; Received: from domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5FJv1aS006094 for &lt;root@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal&gt;; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:57:01 GMT Received: (from root@localhost) by domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p5FJv1Dc006093; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:57:01 GMT Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:57:01 GMT Message-Id: &lt;201106151957.p5FJv1Dc006093@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal&gt; From: root@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal (Cron Daemon) To: root@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02.compute-1.internal Subject: Cron &lt;root@domU-12-31-38-00-AC-02&gt; usr/bin/python /home/ec2-user/cronscripts/testscript.py Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated X-Cron-Env: &lt;SHELL=/bin/sh&gt; X-Cron-Env: &lt;HOME=/root&gt; X-Cron-Env: &lt;PATH=/usr/bin:/bin&gt; X-Cron-Env: &lt;LOGNAME=root&gt; X-Cron-Env: &lt;USER=root&gt; /bin/sh: usr/bin/python: No such file or directory </code></pre> <p>This was the last entry I found in the root mail. It seems to not be able to find python, even though it's exactly where that say it is. And when I print crontab -l, usr/bin/python does have a leading slash. Do I need to change a cron path somewhere?</p>
 

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