Hi,
I am running a perl script in crontab as follows:

* * * * *  /home/httpd/vhosts/mysite.com/cgi-bin/deleteFiles.pl?docume
+ntroot=/home/user/directory
[download]

However , this file doesn't run at every minute .
So I tried

* * * * *  /home/httpd/vhosts/mysite.com/cgi-bin/deleteFiles.pl /home/
+user/directory
[download]

i.e passing the path as a argument .
But the perl file didn't ran in both cases .
My perl file code for first few lines where I tried above is as follows :

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  use CGI;
  use DBI;
  my $query=new CGI;
  print $ARGV[0];
  my $documentroot=$query->param("documentroot");
  print  $documentroot;
  exit 1;
[download]

For the time being I am trying to print the path so that I know that the script gets the path properly .
Can anyone let me know wht wrong I am doing in my script or cron settings .
Thankyou for paying attention to my question.

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