[Fab-user] Fabric cron job

[Maximilia Blackwell]

I'm new to fabric, just began using it yesterday.  I have ran into a problem 
though.  I have a script that creates an ec2 instance, and volume.  I put it in 
a fabfile so that I could ssh into it to format, mount, and upload files to the 
volume.  What I want to do is create a cron job of the script so I can run it 
over a 24 hour period every x minutes.  Before I was able to use:

*/5 * 8 8 * /usr/bin/python /home/max/somescript.py

However when I place the fabfile.py instead of somescript.py, my global 
variables for env.hosts are not read and it prompts me for a host.  Should I be 
doing something different?  Any help would be appreciated.  Also, I just signed 
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Thanks,
MB