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Anyway it might have something to do with the environment the script is running in ...
- what user's crontab is this? (root?)
- show us the code of the script called 'root'
then we might be able of helping you ...
pelagic

update:
I just read YOUR update ... no more ideas left on my side ... besides: stay up and watch the script running at 0410 ...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: cron/perl interaction gotchas i am missing?
by schweini (Friar) on Jan 30, 2004 at 13:27 UTC
    it's /etc/crontab, and 'root' is the username, which MDK ssems to use in it's crontab format....