Re: cron problem

Jay Strauss <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.luni.tech
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Some already mentioned the but nearly ever Cron issue arises from environment issue 

Cron does not have the same environmental cars as a regular login shell 


I usually do a:
env > out.txt 

>From within Cron to see my Cron env then need to write a Script to mod my env prior to calling my real script

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On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote:

> Carl,
> 
> That was a very helpful idea. There is a message in my email that shows the error:
> 
> Can't locate Companies2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/src/ldisplay.pl line 15.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/src/upcoming.pl line 71.
> 
> If I cut and paste the exact command from crontab -l and execute the prgram manually from the console I don't get this error.  I don't understand why cron has this problem?
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois \(Chicago\) - Technical    Discussion <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Richard Reina
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I have the following cron jobs set up:
>>>> 
>>>> #crontab -l
>>>> 1 9 * * 1 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/src/scripts/inactive.pl
>>>> 1 14 * * 1-6 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/src/scripts/upcoming.pl
>>> 
>>> I kinda remember what the 5 crontab time slots are... but save us the
>>> trip to the google and tell us what they are, and how stuff like 1-6
>>> works.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The first script (inactive.pl) executes, the second one does not.  Would anyone have an idea on what I could doing wrong?
>> 
>> And cron emails sdtout to the user.  what is in root's email?
>> 
>> 
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