Re: OT: command line vs. cron
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute
>
> /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc
>
> from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put
>
> 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc
>
> into root's crontab, tvguide.inc is created with nothing in it.
>
> ls -al /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc
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> - -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 21:11 tvguide.inc
>
> so, it can't be a permission problem.
>
> anybody have any ideas as to why it works from the command line but not
> from cron? i'm sure it's something simple that i'm overlooking.
<guess>environment settings</guess>
and, possibly the permissions to the script itself might warn
perl off -- maybe it's more restricted-aware in crontab
environment?
if you specify the nature of the perl script, we might have more
of a chance to guess what's going on.
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