如何自动在ubuntu服务器上启动ipython Notebook？

Question

I set up a cron task to start a ipython notebook server

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/.../.ipython/profile_nbserver
exec ipython notebook --profile=nbserver

When I run this script manually, I successfully launch the ipython server, however crontab fails to launch it. I set up a log file and it is empty.

As a second attempt I set up a /etc/init/myipython.conf file

description: "ipython"
exec /home/effectivespend/anaconda/bin/ipython notebook --profile=nbserver --notebook-dir=/home/effectivespend/.ipython/profile_nbserver
start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE!=lo

but this also fails.

Is it even possible to have a server run ipython in the background? Is the crontab not the right approach to it?

I basically want to launch it and have access to it via remote computers. (ie https://address:8888 )

Thanks

Answer 1

I think the environment variables aren't setup when using cron. When you run your bash script, it has access to your ENV variables. Take a look here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26062135/4080476