Crontab error!

[Ozoz]

dear monks, I receive the following error by email after each crontab job: Prototype mismatch: sub main::head ($) vs none at /usr/lib/perl5/CGI.pm line 198. Any advices for this toddler? Thanks!

[davorg]

Somewhere in your code you have a subroutine called main::head. It is defined as taking one argument (a scalar). Later on, it's being called without any arguments. I could give more details if I could see the code.

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and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[Ozoz]

Here's the script. Thx! :)

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Environment Variables
use LWP::Simple; 
use CGI qw/:standard :netscape :html3/;

$sonuc="/home/usr254/html/sa/filmler/HeadLine.tlt";

&toplasa1;
exit;

sub toplasa1 {

$elle1= get("http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/FILM_front.asp"); 

# Oncesini sil
    $elle1=~ s/^.*<!---Insert_Tertiary_Stories--->//s; 
# Sonrasini sil
    $elle1=~ s/<!---END Insert_Tertiary_Stories--->.*$//s;  
# Gereksiz bosluklari kaldir
    $elle1=~ s/\s\s//g;
# Enterlari kaldir
    $elle1=~ s/\n//g;


# Returnleri tanimla
    $elle1=~ s/<TD WIDTH=13 VALIGN="TOP">/\n/g;
    $elle1=~ s/<!---spacing between headlines--->/\n\n/g;

    $elle1=~ s/&#0145;/'/g;
    $elle1=~ s/&#0146;/'/g;
    $elle1=~ s/&#0147;/"/g;
    $elle1=~ s/&#0148;/"/g;

# Butun tablari kaldir
    $elle1=~ s/<[^>]+>//g;

# Baaas
    
        open(PAGE,">$sonuc") || die("Error $! opening file");
        print PAGE $elle1; 
        close(PAGE);
        
}

[davorg]

Both LWP::Simple and CGI try to export a function called head and they have different prototypes. This can lead to badness - as you've seen.

However, you don't actually use either of these subroutines, so you just need to stop importing them (or, at least, one of them). Quickest fix is to change the use LWP::Simple line to:

use LWP::Simple 'get';

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<http://www.dave.org.uk>

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[Ozoz]

This is the crontab that runs the scipt above:

3 1 * * * /home/usr254/cgi-bin/graab/ok-filmler.cgi