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I have written a small code snippet to check the aws cli version

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    if [ -e "/usr/local/bin/aws" ];
    then
        myAWS="/usr/local/bin/aws"
    else
        myAWS="/usr/bin/aws"
    fi
    
    myCmd=("${myAWS} --version")
    
    echo "$myCmd"
    
    message=$($myCmd)

echo "$message"

Now while running this manually with root user I am able to run this script without any issue . Post our aws cli upgrade when we try to schedule this script via crontab for root user ( schedule given below)

57 21 * * * /rough/scripts/log/test.sh > /rough/scripts/log/test.log 2>&1

I face the below error , can you suggest??? I have reinstalled the aws cli but to no effect.

I understand crontab runtime environment is different than when you run a script manually but can I check whats the runtime environment that cronjob picks up. The user is root and OS is SLES.

[[Error as below]]

/usr/local/bin/aws --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "aws", line 19, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller/loader/pyimod02_importers.py", line 493, in exec_module
  File "awscli/clidriver.py", line 43, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller/loader/pyimod02_importers.py", line 493, in exec_module
  File "awscli/help.py", line 20, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller/loader/pyimod02_importers.py", line 493, in exec_module
  File "docutils/core.py", line 23, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller/loader/pyimod02_importers.py", line 493, in exec_module
  File "docutils/io.py", line 43, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 4-6: surrogates not allowed
[24036] Failed to execute script 'aws' due to unhandled exception!`
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  • Wild guess, you're mixing different python versions.
    – Marcus Müller
    Commented Mar 11, 2023 at 13:11
  • @MarcusMüller- I read this somewhere that the python version used by aws cli and the os python version is interdependent , the problem is for all my other servers it works fine having a different awscli python version and os python version. I am struggling to find a clue since yesterday :(
    – AashkaTe
    Commented Mar 11, 2023 at 13:24
  • Saving the output to $message and then echoing it later is dumb. Just run without saving the output unless you're going to use that output. echo is a bit dangerous to just stuff random output on its command line.
    – user10489
    Commented Mar 11, 2023 at 13:36
  • The last line in your output (unicode error) is incomplete. There should be something informative right after that that is the real error. But I'd guess that the input has a malformed unicode entity in it. Without knowing what this is, I can't say if this is a bug in your input or poor error handling in the code. It is possible to tell python how to handle bad unicode so you don't get this error.
    – user10489
    Commented Mar 11, 2023 at 13:40
  • redirect: You're right, I misread that as 2> /dev/null idunno why. Must be asleep.
    – user10489
    Commented Mar 11, 2023 at 13:41

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