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Crontab -e (Ubuntu) not working with auto update library code

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I use the following line of code to run a library scan and update of the TV Trending library cd /opt/appdata/pydpl/&& sudo python plexlibrary tv_trending - this works perfectly.

In sudo crontab -e, I have entered: @daily cd /opt/appdata/pydpl/&& sudo python plexlibrary tv_trending - however crontab does not seem to be running this script and I am having to do this manually.

Please could someone advise what I’m doing wrong?

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doob187commented, Jun 8, 2020

python3 not python

copy paste it and well done edit the name of the folder

python-plexlibrary in the script and it will works withoutany problems

#!/bin/bash
##USERSIDE EDITS !!
FOLDER="/opt/appdata"
CRONTIME="daily"

###
###dont edit below !!!
CRONTABFILE="/tmp/mycron"
PATH='/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin'
export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8

sudocheck() {
  if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
    tee <<-EOF
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⛔️  You Must Execute as a SUDO USER (with sudo) or as ROOT!
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
EOF
    exit 0
  else
     owned
     plexpython
  fi  
}
owned() {
 if [[ ! -f "$CRONTABFILE" ]]; then
    sudo chmod +x ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/scripts/plexlibrary.sh
    crontab -l > /tmp/mycron
    echo "@${CRONTIME} bash ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/scripts/plexlibrary.sh" >> /tmp/mycron
    crontab /tmp/mycron
    echo "Python-Plexlibrary ${CRONTIME} Crontab is added" 
 else
    echo "Python-Plexlibrary  ${CRONTIME} Crontab is already added" 
 fi
}

plexpython() {
truncate -s 0 ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/plexlibrary.log
echo $(date) | tee -a ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/plexlibrary.log
echo "" | tee -a ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/plexlibrary.log

for file in ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/recipes/*
do
    if [ ! -d "${file}" ]; then
        /usr/bin/python3 ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/plexlibrary/plexlibrary.py $(basename "$file" .yml) | tee -a ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/plexlibrary.log
        echo "" | tee -a ${FOLDER}/python-plexlibrary/plexlibrary.log
    fi
done
}
####### FUNCTIONS LINE
sudocheck
####### FUNCTIONS LINE

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adamgotcommented, Aug 25, 2020

When moving between python2 and python3 (or rather, different versions of shelve), you have to first delete the shelve file. python2 is no longer supported, you may run into other issues in the future.