diff --git a/.github/workflows/stubtest-unused-whitelist.yml b/.github/workflows/stubtest-unused-whitelist.yml
index 82a6136d0..2d8f18a54 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/stubtest-unused-whitelist.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/stubtest-unused-whitelist.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: Remove unused stubtest whitelist entries
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 4 * * SAT'
+    - cron: '0 4 * * *'
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install -U git+git://github.com/python/mypy@master
       - name: Run stubtest
         shell: bash
-        run: ./tests/stubtest_unused.py | tee stubtest-output-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }} || true
+        run: ./tests/stubtest_unused.py | tee stubtest-output-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Store output
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
         with:
           name: stubtest-output
+      # TODO: maybe mypy_primer should always output forward slashes
+      - name: Fix slashes
+        run: sed -i 's:\\:/:g' stubtest-output-windows-*
       - name: Collate duplicates
         run: cat stubtest-output-* | sort -u | tee stubtest-output
       - name: Remove entries from whitelists
@@ -61,3 +64,4 @@ jobs:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           commit-message: Remove unused stubtest whitelist entries
           title: "[gh-action] Remove unused stubtest whitelist entries"
+          base: master
diff --git a/tests/stubtest_unused.py b/tests/stubtest_unused.py
index 50a17e34f..916806579 100755
--- a/tests/stubtest_unused.py
+++ b/tests/stubtest_unused.py
@@ -11,18 +11,17 @@ _UNUSED_NOTE = "note: unused allowlist entry "
 _WHITELIST_PATH = os.path.join("tests", "stubtest_whitelists")
 
 
-def main() -> int:
+def main() -> None:
     unused = run_stubtest()
     with_filenames = []
     for uu in unused:
         with_filenames.extend(unused_files(uu))
     for file, uu in with_filenames:
         print(file + ":" + uu)
-    return 1 if with_filenames else 0
 
 
 def run_stubtest() -> List[str]:
-    proc = subprocess.run(["./tests/stubtest_test.py"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+    proc = subprocess.run([sys.executable, "tests/stubtest_test.py"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
     output = proc.stdout.decode("utf-8").splitlines()
     return [line[len(_UNUSED_NOTE) :].strip() for line in output if line.startswith(_UNUSED_NOTE)]
 
@@ -49,4 +48,4 @@ def find_unused_in_file(unused: str, path: str) -> bool:
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.exit(main())
+    main()