Tried to schedule the launch of a script with the help of Task Scheduler so it runs daily / every 5 minutes. I'm out of solutions as to why my script seems to run fine when setting it up with python.exe but doesn't with pythonw.exe (silent).
I get this error code
Task Scheduler successfully completed task "\Automation\New Ads" , instance "{#######}" , action "C:\Users\#####\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\pythonw.exe" with return code 2147942401.
I've got no idea and can't seem to find a solution online.
Having a terminal pop every 5 minutes is annoying. That's the reason I'm looking at running it with pythonw.exe.
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I'm trying to create a task on Unix similar to a task of Task Scheduler in Windows which will run at specific times of the day and even gets triggered after server restarts. Aim of this job is to execute a python file.
My question is two parts:
1). How to write a job which I can schedule at multiple times of the day. I tried to write cron job using crontab command but it gives You <user> are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration. I would like to know a way where I can schedule the triggering of python script without needing root/admin rights.
2). How can I schedule a job whose scheduling stays in effect even after the server is restarted. While going through various resources, I found systemd, using which we can use to start and stop the services. For example, https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-write-a-simple-systemd-service#:~:text=%20How%20To%20Write%20A%20Simple%20Systemd%20Service,section%20that%20you%20need%20to%20w...%20More%20
.But I'm unable to find how i can write a service script which will run my python script.
Can someone please guide on how can I run a job which executes my python script a some specific times of day and keeps working even after server bounce.
First PAM error say you do not have permissions so check /etc/security/access.conf and add line
+ : youruser : cron crond :0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6
For exec cron job on boot add in cron line like this:
#reboot /path/to/your_program
I have a Selenium script that constantly runs on a server in a loop using PyCharm. Its average run time is about an hour, but I notice that every next run takes longer than the one before. I do use browser.close() and browser.quit(), but it doesn't help. At the end of the day, the runtime becomes over five hours long. However, as soon as I kill PyCharm and open it again and then run the script again, the runtime goes back to normal. Just stopping the script and running it again doesn't do the trick. Is there a way to automatically close PyCharm after the script finishes and then open it again to run the same script?
I have a python script that incorporates subprocesses. I want it to run at a given time, so I set up a task to launch the .py script. However, it does not run...I viewed the history of the event and it appears to have "started" and closed all at 3:30:00 pm. So nothing really ever happened. I have also tried starting it in a batch file, that does not work with the task scheduler either. However, both the standalone script and the batch file work independently of the task scheduler just fine. Has anyone seen this or have any idea what I need to do to fix this issue?
I have written some Python code to automate a task. Then I scheduled the Python script to execute twice a week using windows task scheduler. The task runs but there are two issues.
The console prints some error. It is strange because when I run the script manually after opening command prompt everything works as expected. This is what I do manually.
cd directory
directory>script.py
Inside the task scheduler I have directly specified the location of the script to run as C:\full\path\to\script.py
Second issue is that I can't even diagnose the error because the console closes as soon as it executes the script. This is despite the fact that I have added a dummy input command at the end of script like this:
All my Python code
input('Press any key to exit')
I also tried to keep the console open by using time.sleep(60) after importing the time module.
Can anyone tell me how can I keep the console open. Let me repeat that I am running the script using windows task scheduler. Running the script manually generates no error.
Thanks.
I'm a noobie to python and have over the past few days tested and created a .PY file that runs perfectly from the command prompt either with the D:\Python34 or just as
Its pretty basic. Gets info from web and places it in a spreadsheet - I import requests, BeautifulSoup and openpyxl. The last statement is to save the workbook. I'm figuring that Python closes itself as does the workbook.
I wish to run it daily. So I used the Windows Task Scheduler on my Windows 7 Ultimate. I have it running only when I am logged in.
I have tried the following:
1) using python directly with complete paths
2) using only the full path and the
3) using a batch file that does #1 above and has an EXIT
4) using a batch file that does #2 above and has an EXIT
When running the batch from the command file OR Task Scheduler, the command window opens, it does its thing and the command window closes.
The problem is when I run it via the Task Scheduler in any of the above ways, it does its thing, but continues to say "RUNNING" in the scheduler.
I have tried to run the Windows Process Monitor using some filters I found on the web, however nothing shows up.
Extremely frustrating --Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Jerry
While I had the Task Scheduler open, the screen was showing "running". After I closed the screen and let it run the next day, everything worked fine. It must be something to do with the refresh on the task scheduler.
So my solution was to close the Task Scheduler and let it run as scheduled.