Russell Johnson wrote:
> I have a perl script that I wrote that is supposed to query a service, then
> write the results to a file in the temp directory. It exits, then another
> script comes along and parses that file at intervals. For weird reasons, I
> need to do it this way rather than have the parsing script query the service
> itself.
>
> I have the following routine in my perl script:
>
> sub writetemp {
> open (NEWFILE, ">/tmp/$0.count") or die $!;
> print NEWFILE "$product{name}.value $product{value} $date";
> close (NEWFILE);
> }
>
> This works like a champ when I run the script from the command line.
>
> But when I run the script from roots cron, no output file is produced. I've
> also tried producing the file in a subdirectory within the /root home
> directory, with the same results.
Running it at the command line as who and from who's crontab?
Where does the global variable $0 come from? How is it set?
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Rod
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> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Russell Johnson
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