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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: lossage running perl script from crontab
Message-ID: <124321@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:11:42 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.193638.4002@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1991Feb28.193638.4002@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> anderson@optical.squibb.com writes:
>
>When I run the following script from the csh prompt, it works fine.
>However, when I try to run it from cron it doesn't quite work as
>expected.  Here's the crontab entry:

Stuff run from cron has almost no environment. Specifically,
it has whatever cron's was. In certainly doesn't have your
interactive one. Perhaps ping is not being found? 
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