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python run script every 5 minutes

Tempest answered on September 29, 2021 Popularity 9/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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# Credit: Jakub Jirutka
# I suppose that you have cron installed already; 
# if not, then install some (vixie-cron for an example).

# Create a new file /etc/cron.d/<any-name>.cron with the following content:

# ---
# run script every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * *   myuser  python /path/to/script.py

# run script after system (re)boot
@reboot       myuser  python /path/to/script.py
# ---

# where myuser is the user to run the script 
# (it shouldn’t be root if possible, for security reasons). 
# If this doesn’t work, then try to append the content to /etc/crontab instead.

# You might want to redirect stdout/stderr of the script to file,
# so you can check if everything works fine. 
# This is same as in shell, 
# just add something like >>/var/log/<any-name>-info.log 2>>/var/log/<any-name>-error.log 
# after the script path.

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