Re^2: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory"

Given the reply earlier about single hard drive on laptop, I would think that the directory (or, parent) would be already mounted and thus removes automount or similar. (The explicit question was still not answered.)

Could it be possible that that a bad "shebang" line (not shown), if present, would be causing the problem even though the program is started explicitly via /usr/bin/perl per OP?

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Re^3: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory" by Nemo Clericus (Beadle) on Oct 09, 2014 at 17:36 UTC
That would be a very odd situation indeed considering he said it does run sometimes. If there was an issue determining what binary would interpret the file, it shouldn't ever run.	[reply]
Re^4: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory" by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2014 at 20:28 UTC
successful execution manually: `:~$ bash -l -c '/usr/bin/perl /home/myuser/scripts/perl/flash.pl' running for: 2014-10-08 get, success 148847 bytes of data. Number of rows affected: 0 :~$ /usr/bin/perl /home/myuser/scripts/perl/flash.pl running for: 2014-10-08 get, success 148847 bytes of data. Number of rows affected: 0 :~/scripts/perl$ ./flash.pl running for: 2014-10-08 get, success 148847 bytes of data. Number of rows affected: 0` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory" by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2014 at 20:36 UTC
Strange. Just some debugging ideas: what happens when running the following commands from the crontab: `ls -l /home/myuser/scripts/perl/` `ls -l /usr/bin/perl` `file /home/myuser/scripts/perl/flash.pl` `head /home/myuser/scripts/perl/flash.pl` `/usr/bin/perl -le 'print "Hello, World"'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory" by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2014 at 20:42 UTC
Re^7: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory" by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2014 at 20:50 UTC
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Re^4: Crontab "Can't open perl script", " No such file or directory" by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2014 at 20:26 UTC
`:~$ bash -l -c '/usr/bin/perl /home/myuser/scripts/perl/flash.pl' running for: 2014-10-08 get, success 148847 bytes of data. Number of rows affected: 0 :~$ /usr/bin/perl /home/myuser/scripts/perl/flash.pl running for: 2014-10-08 get, success 148847 bytes of data. Number of rows affected: 0 :~/scripts/perl$ ./flash.pl running for: 2014-10-08 get, success 148847 bytes of data. Number of rows affected: 0` [download]	[reply] [d/l]