[sf-perl] Running a perl script as a service

[Richard Reina]

Thanks for all the replies.  Putting the full path in fixed the problem.

Thanks again.

On Jan 11, 2008 10:07 AM, Quinn Weaver <quinn at fairpath.com

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:39:27AM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
>
> > Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks for any help.
>
> I think the problem is this:
>
> When you run it from the command line, it uses your personal
> environment var settings, including your setting for PERL5LIB.
>
> When it runs from your init.d script, it doesn't have your environment--
> just a minimal env setup provided by the init system.
>
> To avoid confusion, I would use an explicit path here:
>
> >       require "mail_processor.pl";
>
> e.g. require '/path/to/mail_processor.pl';
>
> HTH,
>
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