Schedule a cron job (a Python script) every 2 minutes

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hi,

I have just started using DietPi and find it really cool. I had couple of minor hiccups as I got familiar but everything works great now. Need a small help because I couldn’t get this to work - I need to schedule a Python script to run every 2 minutes ( on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, running DietPi 6.7 ). Here’s what I did

I added a cron job by issuing the command “sudo crontab -e” and then included this line towards the bottom of the file

*/2 * * * * python /opt/scripts/post-updates.py

I also tried adding the shebang line to my Python script and then removed “Python” from the above line but it still doesn’t seem to work

*/2 * * * * /opt/scripts/post-updates.py

But the above script doesn’t seem to run. And also if I include any print statements in Python script, would it print onto my ssh console when the job runs? Thanks & Cheers