How to get CRON to call in the correct PATHs

Question

I\'m trying to get cron to call in the correct PATHs. When I run a Python script from shell the script runs fine as it uses the PATHs set in bashrc but when I use cron all t

Answer 1

I know this has been answered already, but I thought that his would be useful to some. I had a similar issue that I recently solved (found here) and here are the highlights of the steps I took to answer this question:

1. make sure that you have the variables you need in PYTHONPATH (found here and here and for more info here) inside the .profile or .bash_profile for any shell you want to test your script in to make sure it works.

2. edit your crontab to include the directories needed to run your script in a cron job (found here and here)

   a) be sure to include the root directory in the PATH variable (.) as explained here (basically if you are running an executable with your command it needs to be able to find root or the directory where the executable is stored) and probably these (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)

3. in your crontab file, create a cronjob that will change directory to the directory where you have successfully ran the script before (i.e. Users/user/Documents/foo)

   a) This will look like the following:

   * * * * cd /Users/user/Documents/foo; bar -l doSomething -v