I have a script that reads in the files of a directory, looks for specific files (based upon the filename), then prints those files out. Now in the .profile of the user, I have an environment variable called PDPRINTER set, so that I can use a special command to print out the report double-sided. When I run this script from the command line, I have absolutely no problems. However, when I run it from cron, it doesn't work(i.e. the files don't print, although the directory listing that I print using lpr does). The O.S. is HP-UX 11.0 with Perl 5.6.1
#!/opt/perl5/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Slurp;

my $DIR="/home/mis/ftpstore";

my @Files=read_dir($DIR);
my $file;

@Files=sort{$a cmp $b}@Files;

system("ls -l $DIR/Unity*.prpt | lpr");
foreach $file(@Files){
  if($file=~/Unity\d{3}\.prpt/){
  ## This command is a specialized command for the
  ## HP Distributed Print Service.
    system("pdpr -x sides=2 $DIR/$file");
  }
}

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Any suggestions or ideas are welcome. Thanks.

TStanley
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about this script for Hamlet they've worked out
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