comment on

basically the Perl module Archive::Extract works manually but will not work via crontab -

"does not work" is not diagnostic :)

Mechanic, Mechanic, my car doesn't work?

But sir, that is refrigerator!

turn on debugging, all things have debugging, even crontab

$Archive::Extract::DEBUG = 1;

Start reading these to see a typical crontab story :) The problem is usually basic path managment. A relative path to the program, wrong path to perl on shebang, an assumed Cwd, wrong module path ( %INC ) or other %ENV , wrong permissions, not checking for errors, not reading error messages, wrong path again :)

In reply to Re^2: Perl Module Not Working In Crontab by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl Module Not Working In Crontab by dailyoliver

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


go ahead... be a heretic
	PerlMonks