Python script run via cron does not execute occassionally
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I have a simple python script for fetching tweets and caching them to disk that is configured to run every two minutes via cron.
*/2 * * * * (date ; /usr/bin/python /path/get_tweets.py) >> /path/log/get_tweets.log 2>&1
The script runs successfully most of the time. However, every so often the script doesn't execute. In addition to other logging, I added a simple print statement above the meat of the script and nothing except the output from the initial date command makes it to the log.
#!/usr/bin/python
# Script for fetching tweets and then storing them as an HTML snippet for inclusion using SSI
print "Starting get_tweets.py"
Any ideas? The system is a VPS running Centos 5.3 with python 2.4.
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