Cron Mystery

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Just a guess, but remember that cron expects a Bourne Shell Script, not 
a Perl script. I have several Bourne scripts that run under cron and send 
email. Remember that cron does not execute your ~/.profile, so you may 
need to update your path and other variables. You can easily solve the 
problem by writing a short Bourne Shell script as a wrapper around your 
Perl script.
 
On 21 May 2001, at 8:07, Phil Buckley wrote:

> I'm am out of ideas, I can't figure out why my cron job won't run...

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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