On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 04:04 US/Pacific, Glynn S. Condez wrote: [..]
what should be the problem running on cronjob. both this doesnt work.
*/5 * * * * perl /path/to/pingscript */5 * * * * /path/to/perlscript
one of the first questions out the shoot:
what is the error message you get from cron
normally there is an email that gets generated stating what the return status of the cronjob was.
One of the things you may need to check for is whether you have a
PERL5LIB
environmental variable that is available in your 'login shell' - that is not available when cron runs and provides a limited shell to work with.
In some automounted networked systems I have found that cron will not force the mounting of /path so what you would find me do is
*/5 * * * * ( cd /path/to/ ; /path/to/perlscript )
to force the auto mounter...
If you have this running every five minutes, have you thought about 'daemonizing' it and letting it simply go into a 'sleep' and/or select on a control port in a poll loop?
ciao drieux
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