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RE: Running perl script in cron in cygwin under Windows
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'The Cygwin Mailing List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:49:31 -0000
- Subject: RE: Running perl script in cron in cygwin under Windows
- References: <042e01c85671$6aa39de0$0a00a8c0@a64x23800p> <C440775DE111CD47B341A35CF512425D03FD4AAE@auntm231.apac.corp.eds.com> <009001c8572b$71b77d80$0a00a8c0@a64x23800p>
>> Cron works on other scripts but not with a perl script. If it's the
>> environment (we are running korn instead of the bash default), it
>> might be good to create a wrapper script in korn shell.
perl often needs a rebaseall run to function at its best.
>> Does cron use bash default profile for the login to run? That could
>> be the key.
>
> It's also been a while since I had to solve cron problems, but I believe
> cron doesn't use any shell -- it just launches whatever program and
> arguments you feed it (via one of the exec() calls?). So if you want to run
> shells, scripts, etc., you have to do whatever set up your code expects.
See also "cron_diagnose.sh" and /usr/bin/cron-config.
cheers,
DaveK
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