I ran the file manually and it with the line above and it said "dat file not found" so I ran with the --makedat and it seemed to work, creating a dat file under /root. Permissions wise it is set as owned by kingnubian but I changed that to "execute by others".
BTW, I am sorry but the line should have read ipcheck.py. I made a mistake when I made the post but not when I made created the crontab.