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Old 09-21-2010
[Solved] Error while running on Cron
All,

I am running one perl script from prompt and its running fine, but while putting it on cron gives below error,

Code:
DB-Library error:
        Could not open interface file.

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Old 09-21-2010
You have to load your environment for the cron job to be executed... e.g source your .profile or add your environment variables at the beginning of your script
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Old 09-21-2010
hey thanks vbe, set env variable on start of the script and it worked !
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