Hi everyone, Can anyone help me in my problem. I have written a perl script that reads a flat file and does some processing and then insert the rows in database. This program runs perfectly when I run it from command line in unix but doesn't connect with database when it is applied in cron. the database handler is empty. I have tried eval on insert statement and the error it gives is "Can't call method "do" on an undefined value". and when I use this statement $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password,{ RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 }); it doesn't proceed anywhere in the program and terminates write there without printing any error. Kindly help me as soon as possible.

In reply to Need Help regarding perl script in unix cronjob... by waridtel

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