cron perl script won't sendmail

[Pete Templin <templin@urdirect.net>]

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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