My apologies for taking the shortcut of looking only for a shared experience here (as clue) rather than a solution. The complexity of the problem etc!

(runme.sh): exec perl5.8.7 cronmgr.pl # always succeeds for 5.8.0

(cronmgr.pl): use Carp; print "ok done\n";

#non-cron> runme.sh # ==> "ok done"

#cronuser> runme.sh # ==> "ok done"

(cronmgr.pl): use BerkeleyDB; print "ok done\n";

#non-cron> runme.sh # ==> "ok done"

#cronuser> runme.sh # ==> FAIL

Let $bdbpath = `find / -name BerkeleyDB` # result(s)

(cronmgr.pl): use lib $bdbpath; use BerkeleyDB; print "ok done\n";

#non-cron> runme.sh # ==> "ok done"

#cronuser> runme.sh # ==> FAIL

The actual wrapper code in cronmgr.pl uses eval and logs custom messages from the results (but no captured meta output). The primary suspect is the cron environment, of course. But one would expect a targetted "use lib" to counter that surely? I have yet to try if Carp will be more informative. I will also try rolling out a newer cron, as suggested, seeing there are no similar experiences out there!

cheers Pstack

In reply to Re^2: possible perl5.8.7 bug? by Pstack
in thread possible perl5.8.7 bug? by Pstack

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