[SOLVED] Run SH script in a new terminal window

Issue

I am currently using crontab to run a SH script at boot which navigates to the path of my python script, switches to a different python environment and runs my python script, although it works perfectly fine it runs hidden without a terminal for me to monitor whatever the python interpreter prints like errors, how could I make it so the python interpreter points at a newly opened terminal window?

Here is my SH script (runs with the bash interpreter, not sh):

#!/bin/sh
cd /
cd /home/pi/Desktop/Juvia-py
source defenv/bin/activate
python3 juvia.py &

and my crontab entry:

@reboot bash /home/pi/launcher.sh

Thank you

Solution

If you just want to record errors, you could pipe STDOUT and STDERR to files, something like

python3 juvia.py >stdout.log 2>stderr.log &

But if you wanted to open it in a separate window so you could interact you would need to manage STDIN more creatively.

Answered By - Andrew F