This involves code breaking ONLY with this (presently known) combination: perl5.8.7 using BerkeleyDB as a cron job.

There is no problem when it is not run as a cron job, nor when the perl5.8.0 interpreter is used and it is a cron job, nor when some other installed modules (besides BerkeleyDB) are USE'd with 5.8.7 under cron.

Is anyone aware of this conflict? I cannot say whether or not there are other modules besides BerkeleyDB which run foul of the 5.8.7 interpreter under cron. It is awkward for me to test because this vixie-cron has a bug requiring both stdout and stderr be redirected to null. But I do know, for instance, that there is no problem with the combination when some other modules (like Cwd) are alone used.

If anyone could point to other references touching on this idiosyncracy it would be appreciated.

Cheers

Pstack

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