Question

Okay so I have a bash script that simply downloads a web page, and then I use python to pulls some data out of the downloaded page.
So my bash script is along the lines of

#!/bin/bash
html_file="web_page.html"
wget -O /home/michael/Documents/CS288/homework7/web_page.html http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-mktscreener.asp?exchange=13\&screen=1
python hw_7_2.py $html_file

Now, when I just execute this bash script from the command line it runs fine, the wget runs and then my python script executes, however when I set it up as a cron job the wget will run but the python script never executes.
I have not really set up cron jobs so this I think may be the issue. This is basically what my crontab file looks like

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 * * * * * michael /home/michael/Documents/CS288/homework7/usatoday_runner.sh

Answer 1

try to replace the cron line with :

* * * * * michael /home/michael/Documents/CS288/homework7/usatoday_runner.sh > /tmp/why_is_this_failing.log 2>&1

the answer may be in the /tmp/why_is_this_failing.log