Question

I have followed the suggestion in this question

as I am using Django, I have set the script to store date and time of each run of the script in the db, but no entry has been stored yet in the database.

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Is there a way to figure out, other than typing “top” and searching through?

Answer 1

First, I would probably configure cron to mail yourself any output by using MAILTO:

In /etc/crontab:

MAILTO=username

Second, I usually add something to my script that (almost) cannot possibly fail, like the following:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$0 ran on `date +%c`" >> /tmp/crontab_test.log

# ... rest of program

If you’re calling a python script directly from cron, you could do something similar or create a wrapper shell script.