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Cron job wont run python script - even after two days of googling

I am trying to run python script via a cron job, but have had no luck the last two days, and I am running out of hairs to pull out.

Some info:

-->I have approximately 20 hours experience using Linux, so I might have missed something very basic.

-->Linux server (Ubuntu) on Linode.com

-->Script runs in terminal

-->Script has the permissions "0644"

-->#!/usr/bin/env python3.7 is added to the beginning of the script

-->The script belongs to the user "adamsavage" and I have tried to add it to both this users cron file and the cron file belonging to root using crontab -e and sudo crontab -e respectively

-->The cron files looks like this, and has a newline at the end: 

* * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/adamsavage/python-scripts/send_new_sessions.py >> /home/adamasavage/log.txt 2>&1

-->sudo grep CRON /var/log/syslog returns this:

Apr  2 15:25:01 noeluddig CRON[7728]: (adamsavage) CMD (/home/adamsavage/python_scripts/send_new_sessions.py >> /home/adamasavage/log.txt)
Apr  2 15:25:01 noeluddig CRON[7729]: (root) CMD (/home/adamsavage/python_scripts/send_new_sessions.py >> /home/adamasavage/log.txt)
Apr  2 15:25:01 noeluddig CRON[7730]: (adamsavage) CMD (echo 'Yo' >> /home/adamsavage/log.txt)
Apr  2 15:25:01 noeluddig CRON[7731]: (root) CMD (echo 'Yo' >> /home/adamsavage/log.txt)
Apr  2 15:25:01 noeluddig CRON[7732]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)

-->I have also tried the following:

* * * * * cd /home/adamsavage/python_scripts/ && /home/adamsavage/python_scripts/send_new_sessions.py >> /home/adamasavage/log.txt

and

* * * * * cd /home/adamsavage/python_scripts/ && /usr/bin/python /home/adamsavage/python_scripts/send_new_sessions.py >> /home/adamasavage/log.txt

-The script is supposed to send me an sms with some info, which again works when it is ran from terminal.

-I should also mention that just having echo "message" >> /home/adamsavage/ouput.txt does actually run and prints "message" to that file.

What am I missing? Suffice to say, help will be greatly appreciated!:)

Solution

  • I have no idea why this is, but what made it work was to remove the absolute path to the log file. If anyone can explain this, that would be great!