Re^2: Perl app won't compile /run from cron

Hi I tried perldoc -l Image::Grab but I don't have perldoc installed.
I am not using local::lib.
I used the cron commmand

  * * * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/user/perl_script.pl 1 2>&1 | /usr/bin/
+logger -t test_cron
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to get the compiler error output from syslog.

Dazz

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Re^3: Perl app won't compile /run from cron by haukex (Archbishop) on May 25, 2018 at 12:17 UTC
I am not using local::lib. Based on the pathname `~/perl5/lib/perl5` and that you say you used `cpan` to install the module, I'm pretty sure you are using local::lib. The `cpan` client, when run without `sudo`, will usually detect that it doesn't have permissions to write to the system directories and autoconfigure to use local::lib. If you check your `.profile` or `.bashrc` files, you should see variables like `PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT` and `PERL5LIB` being set there, these would have been added there by local::lib, and as I said those are the variables that are probably missing from the environment that `cron` provides, hence my suggestion to try and set `PERL5LIB` explicitly. I tried `perldoc -l Image::Grab` but I don't have perldoc installed. Well, you could do `sudo apt-get install perl-doc`, but did you try dave_the_m's suggestion, which should work even without `perldoc`? I also made a few other suggestions and asked a few questions above as well as here.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Perl app won't compile /run from cron by hippo (Archbishop) on May 25, 2018 at 09:56 UTC
I tried `perldoc -l Image::Grab` but I don't have perldoc installed. `locate Image/Grab.pm`	[reply] [d/l] [select]