Macalalad, Jun wrote:
> I've been trying to run a perl script from cron in cygwin -- not
> good. It runs when in a cygwin command prompt. Any idea where I've
> done wrong please? Help?
Do you have cron working? Verify it with a simple command, such as 'touch'.
If that works, try a Perl one-liner such as the following:
20080113-214329 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ perl -e 'open FH, "> /home/dpchrist/hello.out"; print FH "hello,
world!\n"'
If all of the above works, I'd suspect the environment variables/ path --
cron doesn't set up the same environment as you get with an interactive
login shell. My standard trick is to write a Bash shell script that sets up
the environment (typically by invoking .bash_profile and/or .bashrc) and
then launches the Perl script, and then have cron run the wrapper script.
HTH,
David
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