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in reply to Re: Perl app won't compile /run from cron
in thread Perl app won't compile /run from cron

... or are using different versions of the perl executable.

Excellent points, and that reminds me of another piece of advice I've learned the hard way (a few times ;-) ): Always use absolute paths in crontab.