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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.<br>
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.<br><br>
At 08:53 PM 6/29/2003 -0500, David Murphy wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Im trying
to load a script via crontab<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>The cronttab entry is <br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>*/2 * * * *
QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah&& export QUIERY_STRING && cd
/path/to/script && ./script.pl<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Some varations ive tried are
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<li>Putting the command in a sh file and running that</font>
<li><font face="arial" size=2>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah;
export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ; ./script.pl</font>
<li><font face="arial" size=2>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah;
export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ; perl script.pl</font>
<li><font face="arial" size=2>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah;
export QUIERY_STRING ; perl /path/to/script.pl</font>
<li><font face="arial" size=2>*/2 * * * * QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah;
export QUIERY_STRING ; /path/to/script.pl</font>
<li><font face="arial" size=2>Writing a Perl script that issue
system(QUERY_STRING=Blah:Blah; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ;
./script.pl)</font>
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<font face="arial" size=2>None of these work but all of these if put into
sh or bash run fine.<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>What I get back via a cronemail is
variable<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>But one thing is constant it always in
one way or another say file not found<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Either sh cant find it or perl cant or bin/sh
couldnt find it.<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Anyhelp here would be awesome<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>And 0755 is the permissions and owner
ship of the file it to the user running the cron.</blockquote>
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