A couple things that might be worth trying...
# crontab -l
* * * * * perl /root/nfs_share/SCRIPTS/cron_ncp.pl >>/tmp/cron_ncp.tmp
+.txt 2>&1
That is, redirect output somewhere else, just to be sure there aren't permission issues, and include stderr together with stdout.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $tmp = `ps -ef`;
if ( $tmp !~ /ncp_run.tcl/ ) {
my $cmd = 'expect -f /root/nfs_share/SCRIPTS/ncp_run.tcl';
print "starting now: $cmd\n";
exec $cmd;
}
printf "ncp_run.tcl is already running as of %s: %s\n", scalar(localti
+me), $tmp );
That is, output a little more information about what's happening, and use
exec instead of
system (and do a bit of tidying/tightening up).