Re^2: perl script in nohup running from crontab

ALSO, cron has minimal path provided by a minimal shell, so if it runs on your default shell, it may still not run in cron...

if the user installed expect or nohup in a dir that's not accessible in cron's shell, you may need to hardpath (provide the full path to every executable run in a script run in cron) them, for them to work within cron.

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Re^3: perl script in nohup running from crontab by tanuj (Novice) on Sep 22, 2011 at 13:38 UTC
i added the full path as /use/bin/expect but still no luck.	[reply]
Re^4: perl script in nohup running from crontab by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 22, 2011 at 13:51 UTC
Have you specified the full path of nohup, too?	[reply]
Re^5: perl script in nohup running from crontab by tanuj (Novice) on Sep 22, 2011 at 16:04 UTC
@choroba , ya i have spicified the path of nohup as well but still the same problem	[reply]
Re^4: perl script in nohup running from crontab by nimdokk (Vicar) on Sep 22, 2011 at 15:41 UTC
You may also want to look at re-setting environment variable for PATH within the script so that the system knows how to find all the executables (/usr/bin, etc.) instead of hardcoding them all in to the command.	[reply]