On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 5:57 AM, John Baker <bakerengineerin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> John Minton, > I gave crontab a try and of course it didn't work. It seems like this > should be a piece of cake to do. I probably did something wrong. I checked > the syslog and see an error: "No MTA installed." > If u have an error in crontab the crontab tries to send you an Email... And of coarse cannot without MTA;) My crontab file says: > > @reboot sudo python /home/debian/Desktop/myProg.py > * * * * * sudo python /home/debian/Desktop/myProg.py > The are two crontabs, users and system crontab. Users crontab you can change with $ crontab -e System crontab with $ sudo nano /etc/crontab If u want to run a process as root, then best is, if u add > @reboot root /usr/bin/python /home/debian/Desktop/myProg.py > * * * * * root /usr/bin/python /home/debian/Desktop/myProg.py > to /etc/crontab HTH -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
