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From: "Greg Lindstrom" <gslindstrom@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Moving a file using Python and Cron
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:34:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9f39a410709071034l144d1ff3y170d62b26444af46@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I have a python (2.4) routine running on Gentoo Linux.  It creates a file
and, after the file is complete, renames the file using Python's os.rename()
command.  When I run the file from the command line everything works great,
but when I schedule the job to run from the crontab file, the original file
is created and populated, but the rename fails.  I am using full paths for
both the original and destination file, and run the command line version
after I 'su' to the production account (named 'edith').  I am told by my
sysadmin that the cron jobs run as edith as well, so he does not think it is
a permission issue (he points out the original file is being created and
populated as expected...the rename fails)

Have any of you dealt with anything like this?  It really has me scratching
my head.

Thanks,
--greg

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07 17:34 Greg Lindstrom [this message]
2007-09-09  9:37 ` [gentoo-user] Moving a file using Python and Cron Jan Seeger

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