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in reply to "safe" perl cron environment?

ACLs, encrypted filesystems? If you don't trust root, you should reserver uid zero for yourself and delegate controlled access to administrative functions to other users with sudo. sudo is a much more widely-used and supported solution and would bring with it none of the stability or support issues related to ACLs and crypto filesystems.