derby, with all due respect the post is not the same. I now have a working script. For some reason when cron runs it (as root) it FTP's a tarball to the remote server with the proper name. The problem is the the tar did not complete before the FTP portion of the script was executed. The file that is FTP'd is 1k and should be 60megs. If I run it from command line, it runs fine. The tarball is 60 megs and it show up on the remote server as such. The path to the directory is not an issue as I am running the script from the parent directory.

In reply to Re^2: perl script and cron by snyder
in thread perl script and cron by snyder

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