Working from the prompt, but not from the cron job [duplicate]

Question

I created a script which takes the IP configuration as input

ifconfig | /usr/bin/python "/home/michel/Python/sendIp.py"

When i type that in in the command prompt, the script gets executed well, and the result of the ifconfig script is available in my script.

However, when I insert it in my cron (with crontab -e) like this, it does not read the ifconfig input

* * * * * ifconfig | /usr/bin/python "/home/michel/Python/sendIp.py"

The input is read in the script like this: data = sys.stdin.read()

Answer 1

Try using the full path to ifconfig in your cronjob.

[~]: which ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig