[Omaha.pm] perl or system problem?

[Terry]

I need to be thoroughly beaten...thanks for pointing out the
obvious.....why the hell I thought that /opt/SUNWppro/bin was in the
default $PATH is beyond me......



> <andrew.hadenfeldt at alltel.com> wrote:
> > Most likely it's a PATH problem. Cron doesn't set up much for an environment so you have to do it. You should be getting an email from cron to that effect ("pprosvc: not found"), assuming you haven't redirected STDERR in cron.
> >
> > My preferred solution is to write a small, generic wrapper script (e.g., "runcron myscript.pl") that sources .profile, sets PATH, etc., and then does an "exec $1" to run the actual script. Also, remember you don't have a tty in cron so avoid stty or similar commands that assume you're interactive.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: omaha-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org
> > [mailto:omaha-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Terry
> > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:14 AM
> > To: Perl Mongers of Omaha, Nebraska USA
> > Subject: [Omaha.pm] perl or system problem?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a hunch this is something to do with my environment .....
> >
> > I am running this program out of cron:
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> >
> > use Mail::Sendmail;
> >
> > $hostname = `hostname`;
> > $message = `pprosvc -n -l`;
> > unshift @{$Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg{'smtp'}} , 'plasmtp';
> > %mail = ( To      => 'jo at hotmail.com',
> >         From    => "admin\@$hostname",
> >         Subject => 'available packages',
> >         Message => "$message"
> > );
> > sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
> >
> > When I run it interactively on the command line, it works fine.  It
> > gives me a full output ($message).   When I run it out of cron,
> > $message is empty......why?   OS Is obviously Solaris.
> >
> > Here is usage for that program:
> >
> > usage: pprosvc [-d | -i [-n] | -l] [-h] where:
> >    d means download all patches.
> >    i means install required patches.
> >    l means list required patches.
> >    n means operate in non interactive mode.
> >    h display usage information.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Terry
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