Running entry point via cron fails

[sheeley]

I'm running into a similar (but different?) issue to #124 when running an entry point via cron.

When I run normally (within or outside a virtualenv) like so:

nohup ~/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/ensure_server_running ~/path/ > /tmp/cron.log 2>&1

Here's what I get:

~/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/ensure_server_running
~/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/ensure_server_running:5: UserWarning: Module _markerlib was already imported from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-3.4.1-py2.7.egg/_markerlib/__init__.pyc, but ~/.venvburrito/lib/python/distribute-0.6.46-py2.7.egg is being added to sys.path
  from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

INFO     config.py 92  loading config
...

Other than the venvburrito warning (which never seems to affect things), it runs fine.

However, when the same command:

* * * * * nohup ~/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/ensure_server_running ~/path/ > /tmp/cron.log 2>&1

Is run via cron, this is the output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/ensure_server_running", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "~/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2829, in <module>
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "~/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 449, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "~/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 742, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "~/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 639, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: ipython>=0.10

Any ideas?

[sheeley]

I just had to prefix it like so:

env -i PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH nohup ~/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/ensure_server_running ~/path/ > /tmp/cron.log 2>&1