Running python script on linux at startup just not working

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EDIT: It turns out that because the script is supposed to take a screenshot, it cant because it starts too early. I thought that it was not the script having problems because it worked fine not on startup.

I am trying to run a python script on startup on linux on a RPi-4. I have tried adding it to rc.local as

/usr/bin/python3 /path/to/script.py &

When I rebooted, nothing happened. I also tried to put it in crontab:

@reboot /usr/bin/python3 /path/to/script.py &

Still nothing happened. I have this line at the start of the script:

#!/usr/bin/python

The script definitely runs without any problems just calling it normally through terminal. Any ideas?

Please [edit] your question and explain what exactly means "that didn't work". What happens and what do you expect to happen? What happens when you run it manually. Maybe you have to show the code. — Bodo, Feb 28 '21 at 16:59
And redirecting output to a log file would be helpful to figure out what’s going on python3 /path/to/script.py >/tmp/script.log 2>&1 — Nicholas Rees, Feb 28 '21 at 17:04
@NicholasRees That helped. It turns out that the script can't take a screenshot that early. — LordOfFrogs, Feb 28 '21 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '21 at 17:00

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use full path to python3.

something like

@reboot /usr/bin/python3 /path/to/script.py &

answered Feb 28 '21 at 17:00

balderman

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Sadly, it still didn't work – LordOfFrogs Feb 28 '21 at 18:08

Running python script on linux at startup just not working

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