hi, I am seeking Perl Wisdom.. please help. I am running a perl script which uses DBI to call a stored procedure in mysql which saves some information in the db. the script works fine from the shell but does not from cron. I believe it has to do with environment variables. but can't get it working, though. 
#cron
#------
59 10 * * * perl /home/rabie/test.pl 1 2 3 > /home/rabie/test.out


#perl
#----
# catch the the passed arrguments
my($val1, $val2, $val3) = @ARGV;

#
#    manipulate the values in perl, then add them to the database
#

# MYSQL STUFF
my $username='rabie';
my $password='test';
my $database='feeds';

eval{
    # checking on status
    print "good so far! \n";

    # Connect to the database.
    my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$database",$username,$p
+assword,{'RaiseError' => 1});
    # sql insert query
    my $query="call feeds.inputfeed(?,?,?);";
    $dbh->do($val1,$val2,$val3);
};
if ($@){
    ### catch block
    print "Failed! \n";
};

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any ideas? i tried wrapping the perl in php script and in shell script and no luck. the log file (test.out) shows nothing, too. thank you for your help

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