On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:16:11PM -0600, Paul Thomason wrote:
| I've written a perl script on a Red Hat server to automate some of the
| processes I do at work (creating accounts, FTP'ing logs etc).
|
| The script run great when run manually on the shell, but when placed in
| the cron table, the system commands do not seem to execute.
|
| I've tried to find similiar reference in online manuals, but so far have
| come up blank.
There's a known bug in Redhat's cron daemon (I know 5.1 was affected,
not sure about later versions) where a signal is being caught and it
breaks things like this. I think at is affected as well.
The fix is to add this to the beginning of your perl script.
# fix for broken cron/at daemon under RedHat 5.1
$SIG{CHLD} = 'DEFAULT';
Of course, it's also possible that your problem is just that you don't
have $ENV{"PATH"} set properly. Set it explicitly in your script.
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