I recently upgraded to Mac Big Sur and have noticed my Python 3.8 cron jobs have stopped working. Under my own account in a bash shell, I can run this without issues ...
davea$ cd /Users/davea/Documents/workspace/article_project; source ./venv/bin/activate; python3 manage.py check_duplicates
In my crontab, I had this set up, which used to work before the upgrade ...
*/5 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /Users/davea/Documents/workspace/article_project; source ./venv/bin/activate; python manage.py check_duplicates >> /Users/davea/logs/record2.txt 2>&1'
However, after the upgrade, I'm noticing my command is never run and I see this issue in my log file
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3: can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
These are the permissions/groups on my "manage.py" file ...
davea$ ls -al manage.py
-rwxrwxr-x 1 davea staff 866 Apr 15 2019 manage.py
What else do I need to do to get my cron job to run again?
Turns out with the new Mac OS there is an extra level of permissions that need to be enabled. In System Preferences, under Security and Privacy, I clicked the Privacy tab, and then added "cron" to the "Full disk Access" list
then the cron jobs ran without the permissions error.
FYI for those visiting,
croncan be located at/usr/sbin/cron.