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From: rdm2@chaucer.uucp (25362-roe mcburnett(H053)m000)
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Subject: Re: lossage running perl script from crontab
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Date: 28 Feb 91 21:23:58 GMT
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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 cron_ping:
...
>chop($result = `ping bozo 5`);         # try for 5 secs to ping helix
perhaps ---------^ ping is not in the path of the shell that cron spawned?
>Why does it work from the shell and not from cron?
>
>Jay Anderson
>anderson@optical.squibb.com

Remember,  cron uses sh (not ksh not csh) to run its commands.  You
might get better results by using the following:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * ksh /usr/local/bin/perl  /usr/local/bin/cron_ping

-Roe McBurnett rdm2@chaucer.cc.bellcore.com