Setting up a cronjob on Google Compute Engine

Question

I am new to setting up cronjobs and I\'m trying to do it on a virtual machine in google compute engine. After a bit of research, I found this StackOverflow question: Running

Answer 1

Edit a cron jobs with crontab -e and inset a line:

* * * * * echo test123 > /your_homedir_path/file.log

That will write test123 every minute into file.log file.

Then do tail if and wait a couple minutes. You should see test123 lines appearing in the file (and screen).

If it runs try running your python file but first make your .py file executable with "chmod +x script.py"

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