RE: [Omaha.pm] perl or system problem?

[<Andrew.Hadenfeldt@alltel.com>]

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
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From: omaha-pm-bounces@mail.pm.org
[mailto:omaha-pm-bounces@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@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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