Ravinder Arepally wrote:
It works from command line. Problem is when we run it as a cron job.
Yes, because you have a good PATH set at the command line. Not all cron daemons
will set a sensible PATH environment variable. Use full paths to executables in
your perl program. For example, use '/usr/
It works from command line. Problem is when we run it as a cron job.
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:57 PM
To: beginners
Subject: Re: Expect prog. doesn't work in background !
Ravinder Arepally wrote:
> All.
Ravinder Arepally wrote:
All.
I wrote this perl program using Expect.pm and this program also works
fine in foreground but does NOT work in background (cron job). Any help
is greatly appreciated.
Try using full paths to external programs. Cron doesn't always set a usable PATH
when it runs script
All.
I wrote this perl program using Expect.pm and this program also works
fine in foreground but does NOT work in background (cron job). Any help
is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use File::Basename;
our $debug;
use Expect;
@ARGV == 1 or die "usage: $0 rem_host rem_u
