I have found that most cron vs command line problems are caused by enviroment.

Assuming you setup most of your enviroment using your .profile in your home dir - then I'd suggest using a small shell wrapper script to run the perl - and enter that into cron.

The script would read something like:

#!/bin/ksh

# Read in enviroment
. /home/user/.profile

# Run Perl script
exec /path/script -options
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Then simply run this script from crontab.

Hope this helps :).

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