I know this question has been answered many time. I refereed heemayls answer in this post to set up the cron job. However, it is not working. Any idea on what is going wrong?
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/env python3 /home/me/DownloadImages1.0.py
The following is the output of crontab -l
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/env python3 /home/me/DownloadImages1.0.py
Best Answer
You need to tell your script which display you wish the script to run, otherwise it won't run.
Use a command like this:
You can also use a global DISPLAY variable just placing this at the top of your cronjobs list
And you can also invoke the DISPLAY by exporting the variable from a bash script via