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Re: cron perl script won't sendmail



crond likes full pathnames is my first thought. Thats likely why it works
from the command line and not crond.

Tom

>Any ideas why the following won't actually send email when run from cron:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>#
>
>open(SENDMAIL,"|sendmail $recipient");
>print SENDMAIL "From: WVFD EMS Dispatch <templin\@urdirect.net>\n";
>print SENDMAIL "To: WVFD EMT <$recipient>\n";
>print SENDMAIL "Subject: Possible EMS call\n";
>print SENDMAIL "\n";
>print SENDMAIL "SAEMS case $case at $address for $desc.\n";
>print SENDMAIL "SAEMS is sending $units units\n";
>close(SENDMAIL);
>
>
>I'm trying to tie pager notification to a website, and it runs fine on the
>command line, but not from cron.  Assume that all variables are properly
>populated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pete
>
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>VP Networking
>
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