in reply to cronjobs and perl

It's probably a matter of permissions. You don't have the same permissions that the 'cron' user has. If the script itself is executable for other users, also check if the files that your script uses are accessible too...

HTH,

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'

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RE: RE: cronjobs and perl
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Sep 18, 2000 at 18:19 UTC
    Typically cron jobs are run as the user that set up the job. If I (fastolfe) run "crontab -e", I'm opening the crontab file for my user. These things will be run as myself at the appropriate times, so there shouldn't (tm) be any ownership/permissions issues here. I suspect it's a problem with his PATH or other environment setting.
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