Hi all,
I have a random question that is bugging me. I have a perl script that uses the Data::ICal::DateTime module to parse out existing ical entries in an ICS local file which is dumped into a sql database. The script works beautiful when run manually, but fails on a cron job. Error log when running state the following error:

"Can't locate object method "events" via package "Class::ReturnValue" at /script.pl line 60.

Line 60 is the code below: 

my @events1 = $cal->events($span);

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So its somehow thinking I'm using the Class::ReturnValue of the $cal variable instead of the Data::ICal module, but again, this only happens on the crontab, manual launch works fine. I have various other modules on other scripts that work fine on a crontab, but this is the only one that has failed. No special formatting or directory changes occur here...so I'm stumped. Any ideas? Please see sample script below: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Data::ICal::DateTime;

my $date1 = DateTime->new( year => 2012);
my $date2 = DateTime->new( year => 2013);
my $span  = DateTime::Span->from_datetimes( start => $date1, end => $d
+ate2 );

my $cal = Data::ICal->new(filename => 'Calendar.ics');

my @events1 = $cal->events($span);
    foreach my $event (@events1) {
       my $summary = $event->summary;
       my $start = $event->start;
       my $end = $event->end;

# Continue sql insertion next...

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In reply to perl module not working in crontab by omegaweaponZ

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