Re^2: Script works when run with sudo, but not when run directly as root...?

I can't find anything that makes any sense. dlamb@xxxxxxxxxx:~$ env && which perl

TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
SSH_CLIENT=172.20.202.137 38907 22
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
USER=dlamb
MAIL=/var/mail/dlamb
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr
+/games
PWD=/home/dlamb
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/dlamb
LANGUAGE=en_US:
LOGNAME=dlamb
SSH_CONNECTION=172.20.202.137 38907 172.21.202.5 22
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
_=/usr/bin/env
/usr/bin/perl
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root@xxxxxxxxxx:~# env && which perl

SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
USER=root
MAIL=/var/mail/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PWD=/root
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
LANGUAGE=en_US:
LOGNAME=root
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
_=/usr/bin/env
/usr/bin/perl
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Re^3: Script works when run with sudo, but not when run directly as root...? by hippo (Archbishop) on May 07, 2014 at 21:00 UTC
Unsurprisingly, the two environments you have listed there differ in the value of $HOME. Crypt::GPG uses this to find the keyrings, so if the keys aren't present on root's keyring, it won't stand a chance.	[reply]
Re^3: Script works when run with sudo, but not when run directly as root...? by Laurent_R (Canon) on May 07, 2014 at 22:13 UTC
It is likely that hippo's message above gives the right explanation, but I can tell you that I met a similar problem with a (DBI-Oracle) script that worked perfectly under my user and did not under the crontab (i.e. root user) because of environment variables being defined differently. I wasted almost a full day figuring out what the problem was, quite a poor performance if you think that I originally wrote the whole script in 2 or 3 hours.	[reply]