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I've created a cron job and it does seem to be running. This is the line I've put in cron file :

@reboot python /home/pi/Pimoroni/bme680/Indoor-Air-Quality-MQTT.py &

I ran the command grep CRON /var/log/syslog to get the list of cron tasks :

Dec 6 13:24:54 TBHPowerPaintPlant cron[327]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3) Dec 6 13:24:54 TBHPowerPaintPlant cron[327]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) Dec 6 13:24:54 TBHPowerPaintPlant CRON[380]: (root) CMD (python /home/pi/Pimoroni/bme680/Indoor-Air-Quality-MQTT.py &)

The script itself contains a line to log to a file when it first runs and this log file is also empty. The script runs fine from the command prompt using python /home/pi/Pimoroni/bme680/Indoor-Air-Quality-MQTT.py Can anyone tell me what I need to do to this script to run on boot up?

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    The script probably has a different home directory (possibly /root), You need to make sure that your script and any software it uses has the full path specified to any files/programs it uses. Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 14:03
  • So it should be python /root/home/pi/Pimoroni/bme680/Indoor-Air-Quality-MQTT.py? Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 14:14
  • No. You need to google linux paths and understand the difference between absolute and relative paths. Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 14:17
  • From my understanding, home/pi is the user folder and is the full path? Should i move the script to another location to make sure. Is there a recommended location for running scripts on system startup? Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 14:37
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    Possible duplicate of Cron not finding necessary files to run .py file Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 18:15

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