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# 1  
Old 01-16-2008
Crontab a Script
I know my question maybe eazy, but it realy cause a problem for me

I have a Perl script to run and get some output, I run this script using perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl

I made another script as followSmilie/moutaz/ciscolog/script)
#!/bin/bash
perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl
cp /moutaz/ciscolog/ciscolog /moutaz/ciscolog/ciscolog-$(date'+%H-%M')-$RANDOM

Then made crontab as follow:
15 * * * * /moutaz/ciscolog/script

The question:
-when apply command from shell it worked fine.
- from crontab it doesn't, only the cp command work.

what is the problem?
# 2  
Old 01-16-2008
May it was not able to find the Perl executable path.
Can you try the same by giving the full path to perl in your script?

Thanks
Nagarajan G
# 3  
Old 01-16-2008
Thanks for your reply.

But it is exactly what I did.

In script which run from crontab: perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl
Also in cron tab /moutaz/ciscolog/script

Even I tried to put in Cron perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl it doesn't work

It is weird, I don't know what is the issue.
# 4  
Old 01-16-2008
You need to put the full path to the Perl interpreter not just your script. You probably want:

/usr/bin/perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl

in the script.
# 5  
Old 01-16-2008
Unfortunantely, It also didn't work also.
# 6  
Old 01-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by moutaz1983
I know my question maybe eazy, but it realy cause a problem for me

I have a Perl script to run and get some output, I run this script using perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl

I made another script as followSmilie/moutaz/ciscolog/script)
#!/bin/bash
perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl
cp /moutaz/ciscolog/ciscolog /moutaz/ciscolog/ciscolog-$(date'+%H-%M')-$RANDOM

Then made crontab as follow:
15 * * * * /moutaz/ciscolog/script

The question:
-when apply command from shell it worked fine.
- from crontab it doesn't, only the cp command work.

what is the problem?

Why dont you try redirecting the cron output to some log file
Code:
 15 * * * * /moutaz/ciscolog/script >> /tmp/cron.log 2>&1

If in the perl script ( /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl ) you may have used the perl instead of full path to perl,try that too

Thanks
Nagarajan G
# 7  
Old 01-16-2008
Yes, It helped alot.

The error file contain the following:

Can't locate Net/Telnet.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /moutaz/ciscolog3/telnet.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /moutaz/ciscolog3/telnet.pl line 4.

I think this will limit the problem.

The perl script is using Net::Telnet to make telnet to routers, So what do you think the problem?
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