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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Im trying to load a script via crontab</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The cronttab entry is </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=’Blah:Blah’
&& export QUIERY_STRING && cd /path/to/script &&
./script.pl</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Some varations ive tried are</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Putting the command in a sh file and running that</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=’Blah:Blah’
; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ; ./script.pl</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=’Blah:Blah’
; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ; perl script.pl</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=’Blah:Blah’
; export QUIERY_STRING ; perl /path/to/script.pl</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=’Blah:Blah’
; export QUIERY_STRING ; /path/to/script.pl</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Writing a Perl script that issue
system(‘QUERY_STRING=’Blah:Blah’ ; export QUIERY_STRING
;cd /path/to/script ; ./script.pl’)</span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>None of these work but all of these if put into sh or bash
run fine.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What I get back via a cronemail is variable</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But one thing is constant it always in one way or
another say file not found</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Either sh cant find it or perl cant or bin/sh couldn’t
find it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Anyhelp here would be awesome</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And 0755 is the permissions and owner ship of the file
it to the user running the cron.</span></font></p>
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