Help with script 1

[spamfree]

Hi,
I want to copy a file to the web directory if it's greater than a certain size. The file size is always > 15K
The following runs without any errors, but fails to copy the file in question.
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file_size = os.path.getsize('cronJob.html')
if file_size > 3000:
shutil.copy('/home/cdr/Logs/cronJob.html', fileName)
else:
pass
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If I omit the test for file size and just run:
shutil.copy('/home/cdr/Logs/cronJob.html', fileName)

all works OK.

I have checked the data type for file_size, which is long and anything else I can think of.


Best Regards.

 

[EBGreen]

What does it show if you do:

print file_size

right before the if statement?

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[spamfree]

It prints

14520

Which is the same as you get when you do:
ls -l


Thanks

 

[EBGreen]

Well, without seeing more of your script, the only thing I can think of is that when you do the copy you use a fully qualified path but when you do the comparison, you use a relative path.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[spamfree]

Bingo!
That's exactly the problem. Each time I ran the script interactively I was in the same directory as the file I was trying to size. That's why it ran from the command line, but not by cron.

Well deserved star.
Cheers.