I have used crontab successfully many times on earlier versions of Raspberry Pi OS (for example Pi Zero W Rev 1.1, running jessie).
However, I cannot get any joy when trying to create a crontab job, that will run a Python program on a Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ running bookworm.
I seem to recall reading that it could be something to do with path and environment variables (whatever that means)
Previously I could have a python 3 program stored on the desktop and just add a few commands to a crontab job opened using crontab -e and it would run.
Any help would be very much appreciated to run a crontab job on the Model 3B+ running bookworm.
However, I cannot get any joy when trying to create a crontab job, that will run a Python program on a Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ running bookworm.
I seem to recall reading that it could be something to do with path and environment variables (whatever that means)
Previously I could have a python 3 program stored on the desktop and just add a few commands to a crontab job opened using crontab -e and it would run.
Any help would be very much appreciated to run a crontab job on the Model 3B+ running bookworm.
Statistics: Posted by RDS — Tue Oct 14, 2025 8:41 pm