I am very new to Python I'm trying to run a python script from within another python script. I can run the script from a unix command line by typing: nohup python script.py password > /tmp/outfile.log 2>&1 & Or, I can put that command in a shell script and run it by typing: ./script.sh Both work great. However I don't know how to put either the command or the shell script in a python.py script and get it to run from there.
Let me know if I need to provide more information.
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Recognized Expert Moderator Specialist os.popen() and subprocess.Pope n() should do what you need, or you could try importing the second script at required location in the first script.
bvdet, thanks for the help. I think I found the problem and it is with crontab and python. I have a python script called scanner.py which I start from the command line and it runs all the time.
Command: nohup python /home/dev/scanner.py password > /tmp/file.log 2>&1 &
Occassionally, the process stops. For that I have another script called check.py which when run checks to see if the scanner.py is running and if not then run the command to start scanner.py, creates a log file and send notification scanner.py is down. When I run this script from the command line it also works.
Command: python /home/dev/check.py > /tmp/check.log
The problem enters when I try to schedule check.py to run every 5 minutes using crontab. Crontab will run every five minutes, a log file is created, I'm notified when the process is down, however, it won't start the scanner.py script like it does when run from command line.
In crontab: */5 * * * * `python /home/dev/check.py > /tmp/check.log 2>&1`
Also, all the scripts have access set to 755.
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