Since a number of users seem to be struggling with the conversion to Solaris, I thought I would share the scripts I have been using to start my Python bots from Solaris cron using the job server. If you want to use these, be sure to substitute your username for "username" in the last line of listing 1, and your python path (if you have one defined) in the third line of listing 2.

With these scripts in your home directly, you can then set up a cron job to run any Python script using the following syntax in your crontab:

30 9 * * * $HOME/pysub jobname $HOME/path/script.py arg1 arg2

"jobname" is an arbitrary name to be given to the job. Be sure to include $HOME/ in both places; replace /path/ with the path from your home directory to the Python script.

I don't know as much about bash as I do about Python, so it is very possible someone else can improve on these scripts. :-) But feel free to use them if they are helpful.

Russ

Listing 1: pysub

#! /bin/ksh # like cronsub, but runs a python script instead of a shell script . /sge62/default/common/settings.sh [[ $# -ge 1 ]] || { echo >&2 "usage: $0 <jobname> <script>" exit 1 } JOBNAME=$1 shift SCRIPT=$@ qstat -j $JOBNAME >/dev/null 2>&1 || qsub -N $JOBNAME /home/username/py.sh $SCRIPT >/dev/null

Listing 2: py.sh

#!/bin/sh # run an arbitrary Python script PYTHONPATH=/copy/of;/your/pythonpath export PYTHONPATH /usr/bin/python $@