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:
- 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.
- 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. 
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Duly noted, Jeff. Thanks for all your hard work and Sam’s!
thx, after one hour try and error I googled and your blog post was the solution