CRON JOB QUESTION

[Peter Kahle]

Blind guess here, but is it possible you're using a relative path for
the file and it's ending up somewhere other than where you expect? Or
that it's running with incorrect permissions to create/modify the file?

P


On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:38, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> HELLO ALL,
> 	I have a slight problem I hope you guys can help.  I have a scheduled
> cron job to run a perl script that I have written.  It runs the
> scheduled perl script at the right time, but the perl script is supposed
> to output a file when it is run, and when I run the script with cron, no
> file is output, but if i run the script by itself then it outputs the
> file.  Any help would be appreciated, if you guys want to see any bits
> from the perl script or cron, or have any questions please let me konw. 
> Thanks again you guys are always a great help.
> 
> 
> Eric
> 
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