Well, it's not reporting any errors because you are not checking for any. As others have pointed out, things could go wrong with the open() call, but you are ignoring them. Why would Perl report anything if you silence it?

As for cron, programs started by the cron daemon are run as the user who owns the crontab file - if all would be running as root, it would be really trivial to hack the system, wouldn't it? However, one should realize that the enviroment is different than running from the command line. There's no shell involved, so no profile is run setting up a myriad of environment variables. Furthermore, the working directory is likely to be different than when you run it from the command line. And since you are not using an absolute path, that's very likely the main cause of your problem.....

Abigail

In reply to Re: Read file (cron) by Abigail-II
in thread Read file (cron) by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.