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in thread Perl app won't compile /run from cron

That's a bug.

No it is not a bug, cron was designed that way

cron is designed to set up a minimal environment when it starts a cron job. It is not a login session so it does not add any environment settings specified via login-semantics such as found in rc files. it is up to you to set them up.

The Cron Environment and Cron Job Failures discusses this in more depth.

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