Perl with Cron on Solaris

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Re: Perl with Cron on Solaris by ZZamboni (Curate) on Jun 27, 2000 at 18:37 UTC
I have a good deal of perl programs run from crontab. The only special treatment I have needed in some cases is properly setting the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environment variables. In those cases, because crontab entries are usually executed using /bin/sh, you can do something like this: `0,30 * * * * PERLLIB=path1:path2 /your/perl/program.pl` [download] --ZZamboni	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl with Cron on Solaris by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 27, 2000 at 19:41 UTC
Be careful that your programs have a fully specified path on their magic line (e.g. #!/usr/local/bin/perl ) while a line like (#!perl) will run for most users (since they have the required PATH in their environment), but it will have problems when demons try to run it, because they usually have a minimal environment. Also, does the userid that cron is running as have the proper permissions to your script and the perl interpreter?	[reply]
Re: Perl with Cron on Solaris by lhoward (Vicar) on Jun 27, 2000 at 18:31 UTC
Do you want to call your perl program from cron? Or do you want to manipulate CRONTAB entries from perl? Running a perl program fron cron is just like running any other program from cron. You don't need to do anything special with cron to call a perl program.	[reply]
RE: Perl with Cron on Solaris by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 27, 2000 at 19:54 UTC
Perl works with cron by default. What is breaking? -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
RE: Perl with Cron on Solaris by csorensen (Beadle) on Jun 29, 2000 at 01:36 UTC
what's the problem .. if you're not familiar with cron check out http://www.linuxdot.org/nlm/part1/cron.html	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl with Cron on Solaris by ergowolf (Monk) on Jul 05, 2000 at 22:11 UTC
Here is what I am trying to do in sh. I am familiar with cron. I just want script #1 to run from the command prompt and script #2 to run from cron. I will try ZZamboni's suggestion. Script #1 start the server and grab the process ID. nohup /local/silverstream/bin/SilverServer -nodbcheck & SIL=$! > Silverprocess echo $SIL bash-2.03# cat logger.sh kill -9 $SIL Script #2 kill the process and grab the log file mv log2 /local/home/admin/log2"`date\|sed s/\ /_/g`" touch log2 chmod 644 log2 chown root log2 chgrp other log2 [download] Ergowolf Does code make a sound if no one is there to type it?	[reply] [d/l]