Re^2: Perl Module Not Working In Crontab

[Anonymous Monk]

basically the Perl module Archive::Extract works manually but will not work via crontab -

:D

"does not work" is not diagnostic :)

Mechanic, Mechanic, my car doesn't work?

But sir, that is refrigerator!

:D

more comedy here

turn on debugging, all things have debugging, even crontab

$Archive::Extract::DEBUG = 1;

Start reading these to see a typical crontab story :) The problem is usually basic path managment. A relative path to the program, wrong path to perl on shebang, an assumed Cwd, wrong module path ( %INC ) or other %ENV , wrong permissions, not checking for errors, not reading error messages, wrong path again :)

• system command is not working
• I have some problem with Crontab
• perl file doesn't execute
• script fails loading module version, but > version is installed
• CGI Help Guide , Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts