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From: Ronald Kuehn <ronald.ku...@sun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Perl script problem under cron
Date: 19 May 2003 09:26:08 GMT
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> > "Paul Tazzyman" <ptazzy...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:3ec868cf$0$18028$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > 
> >>Rodrick Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>>I wrote this perl script when I run it from via command line it runs
> > 
> > fine.
> > 
> >>>but when I schedule it from cron i'ts returning and error in the script
> > 
> > I
> > 
> >>>make 2 system() calls calling /usr/bin/mailx
> >>>
> >>>Your "cron" job on sparky
> >>>* /usr/bin/perl /export/home/rbrown/ftp_code/interface.pl
> >>>
> >>>produced the following output:
> >>>
> >>>sh: 4Missy: cannot execute

The corresponding line in your crontab seems garbled.
It looks like cron treats
"* /usr/bin/perl /export/home/rbrown/ftp_code/interface.pl"
as the command to execute. Your crontab line probably has too many
fields like this

0 * * * * * /something

so cron treats the last * as part of the command to execute.

Ronald
-- 
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