Your "cron" job on lauxastst01 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib ; echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd bin; ./test.pl produced the following output: /usr/sfw/lib Can't load '/usr/local/perl/5.8.2/lib/site_perl/5.8.2/sun4-solaris/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so' for module XML::Parser::Expat: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libexpat.so.0 : open failed: No such file or directory at /usr/local/perl/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 229.