Re: Why does cron kill this script??

I think the error you are getting
is the result of ...

use strict;

somewhere in your script or libs included by your
script. So you need to 'maybe' say ...

my $p = HTML::...

Why this error manifest itself when executed
from cron is probably do to the environment
cron runs in vs. your command line env.
... as others have pointed out

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(jeffa) 2Re: Why does cron kill this script?? by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 07, 2002 at 06:51 UTC
Actually, it is the result of a non-existing file: `use strict; use HTML::TokeParser; my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new(shift); my $token = $p->get_tag("a"); [jeffa@trinity perl]$ ./bar.pl asdfsdaf Can't call method "get_tag" on an undefined value at ./bar.pl line 7.` [download] Not declaring $p with my yields: `Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name ...` [download] So i'd put my money on the bet that strict is not being used or $p was declared earlier. More likely getting home paths mixed up. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR F--F--F--F--F--F--F--F-- (the triplet paradiddle)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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(jeffa) 2Re: Why does cron kill this script??
by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 07, 2002 at 06:51 UTC

use strict;
use HTML::TokeParser;

my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new(shift);
my $token = $p->get_tag("a");

[jeffa@trinity perl]$ ./bar.pl asdfsdaf
Can't call method "get_tag" on an undefined value at ./bar.pl line 7.
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Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name ...
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jeffa

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