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Has Sam Ruby gotten you excited about PlanetPlanet, even though you don’t know Python from Perl? Got it running, but don’t have a clue how to get CRON up and running with a shell script? Yeah, that was me yesterday. Google provided some help, eventually, but I’ll break it down a little more for you:

1. Make sure all your file permissions are right. Half of my hell yesterday was having done all the work as root but not having CHOWN’d and CHGRP’d as appropriate.
2. Use your shell script to change to the appopriate directory before invoking planet.py. I’d never really had to do that, as I’m still a babe in the shell-scripting woods. But if you go in, cd to the /path/to/your/planet.py, then invoke ./planet.py /path/relative/to/config.ini, you’ll be rockin’.

My shell script looks like:

#!/bin/csh -f
cd /home/path/to/planet
/path/to/python/binary ./planet.py ./config.ini

Now, I simplified things by putting config.ini and planet.py in the same folder. If you didn’t [for example, if you're using examples/basic/config.ini just for funsies], you’d just invoke ./planet.py ./path/examples/basic/config.ini.

Thanks, Sam, for pushing me over the edge to play with PlanetPlanet. Now it’s time to get the templates like I want them so I can start using it in production.