I have a jupyer notebook that I am trying to run from cron. The notebook will generate some graphs and send them out via email.
So, to use plotly graphs, I installed Orca.
The cron is running a bash script that would activate the environments and run the notebook via papermill.
run.sh:
#!/bin/bash
cd “$(dirname “$0”)”
source env_run/bin/activate
source env_njs/bin/activatepapermill report.ipynb -p param $1
deactivate
env_run is just a python env and env_njs is the node js env that includes Orca.
When I execute run.sh from the command line, everything is fine, but when I try to execute it via cron, it fails to find the Orca executable
plotly.io.orca.ensure_server()
ValueError:The orca executable is required in order to export figures as static images, but the executable that was found at ‘/apps/user/report/env_njs//lib/node_modules/orca/bin/orca.js’
does not seem to be a valid plotly orca executable. Please refer to the end of this message for details on what went wrong.
Any idea why that is?
When I run from command line, there is no other environment activated and when I comment the line in run.sh where I activate ths jsn environment, it fails from the command line, too, so the env seems to be fine.