APM: Crontab problem

[Larry Hunter]

The examples have two different spellings of the variable: QUERY_STRING and 
QUIERY_STRING. If it's in the crontab job that way it might be the problem.
Also make sure the shebang line in the Perl program has the right path to 
your Perl executable. If that path is not right, you'll get the "file not 
found" message from trying to find the Perl executable. BTW I frequently 
screw this up when developing on a Windows box to run on Linux or Unix.

At 08:53 PM 6/29/2003 -0500, David Murphy wrote:

>Im trying to load a script via  crontab
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>The cronttab entry is
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>*/2 * * * *  QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah&& export QUIERY_STRING && cd 
>/path/to/script && ./script.pl
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>Some varations ive tried are
>    * Putting the command in a sh file and running that
>    * */2 * * * *  QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd 
> /path/to/script ; ./script.pl
>    * */2 * * * *  QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd 
> /path/to/script ; perl script.pl
>    * */2 * * * *  QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah; export QUIERY_STRING ; 
> perl  /path/to/script.pl
>    * */2 * * * *  QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah; export QUIERY_STRING ; 
> /path/to/script.pl
>    * Writing a Perl script that  issue system(QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah; 
> export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ; ./script.pl)
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>None of these work but all of these if put into sh or bash run fine.
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>What I get back via a cronemail is variable
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>But one thing  is constant it always in one way or another say file not found
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>Either sh cant find it or perl cant or bin/sh couldnt find it.
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>Anyhelp here would be awesome
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>And  0755 is the permissions and owner ship of the file it to the user 
>running the cron.

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