Environment Variables when python script run by cron

Question

I have been looking at other stack overflow questions but couldn\'t get any to work. I have a python script which uses environment variables. This script works exactly as pl

Answer 1

You can add it to the top of your crontab and keep it out of version control. Let's say the environment variable causing you difficulty is export DJANGO_SECRET_KEY="FOOBAR_1241243124312341234":

crontab

DJANGO_SECRET_KEY="FOOBAR_1241243124312341234"

SCRIPT_NAME = my_cool_script
20 21 * * 1-5 bash ~/git_repo/cronjobs/$SCRIPT_NAME.sh 2&>1 | tee ~/git_repo/cronjobs/logs/$SCRIPT_NAME.log

my_cool_script.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
~/anaconda3/envs/django/bin/python ~/git_repo/django_project/manage.py run_command

This has worked well for me when the environment variables in question need to be kept secret and the loading of existing .bashrc does not play nice for whatever reason.