Crontab job for python script with database connection not working

Question

First tested something simple like this, which works:

* * * * * echo "something" > /Users/sam/Desktop/vscode/crontest.txt

Now trying

28 10 * * * /Users/user/Desktop/work/venv/bin/python /Users/user/Desktop/work/py_files/test.py

But nothing is happening.

The python script ingests some data from API, parses JSON and outputs to a local mysql db

engine_insert = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mysql+pymysql://root:password@127.0.0.1:3306/database')
df.to_sql('database', engine_insert, if_exists='append', index=False)

But other simpler crons I also had issue with too like opening a website via browser so may just be a syntax issue with crontab?

Answer 1

I faced the same issue and I spent literally days to see where is my problem. So, try two things:

1- Follow these steps/instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22744360/2080489

2- If you still facing the issue, try to stop any security module you have that might affect the connection. In my case, I am using Ubuntu so I stoped AppAromr:

sudo systemctl stop apparmor 

or in case you want to disable it

sudo systemctl disable apparmor 

check the app status by doing:

sudo systemctl status apparmor 

• You may need to reboot your machine after stopping the app.

Hope this would help you.