Cron job: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

On a Mediatemple gridserver, I'm trying to run this by a cron set in the control panel:

usr/bin/python /home/xxxxx/html/sitemap_gen.py --config=/home/xxxxx/html/config.xml

But I get the error "python: can't open file '/home/95809/html/sitemap_gen.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory." But the files are there. MT requires the paths, and there is no difference in the error without the paths.

I can run it manually from ssh:

python sitemap_gen.py --config=config.xml

and have chmoded the script for execution.

Is there a different way to run this script that will work?

MT doesn't have direct examples of python scripts run by cron, and doesn't offer support.

Is there a way to wrap the script in another script - like a bash script - to get away from having to include the paths or invoke python, which I think might be the problem?

From serverfault songdogtech

• Two things i would suggest:

  1. Try to run the command manually on the command line if you have access
  2. Verify that your user has execute permissions on the file /home/xxxxx/html/sitemap_gen.py

  EDIT: oh duh ... try using the full path to python so if the python executable is in /usr/bin it would be : /usr/bin/python /home/xxx/html/sitemap_gen.py <blah blah blah>

  songdogtech : Thanks, but I should have mentioned that I tried both already. Is there a way to wrap the script in another script - like a bash script - to get away from having to include the paths, which I think might be the problem? Does that make any sense?

  songdogtech : Good point, and when I knew what to look for, MT does say that the path to python is usr/bin/python. But still the same error. Tried moving everything to root but then the sitemap_gen.py can't find the sitemap.xml.gz file, even when I put the full path in the config.xml file.
  From Zypher

• Create a dummy script (Just print somethign ) and run it via crond. Maybe crond doesn't have the necessary permissions to even read the file.

  Propably your user have permissions so can execute it, but crond doesn't

  From Nikolaidis Fotis