Solaris

Hi
I have successfukky created a sh script that runs perfectly well when run. It contains within a pl script that when run through a crontab will not run. Are there restrictions running a pl in cron?

No. If the script will run from the command line, it will run in cron.

so something else is preventing it run in cron??

You may need to reload a proper environment when using cron (there is a bunch of thread about it around here)

It could be your environment or it could be the script. Try running it in cron with out redirection. In other words, remove any "> /dev/null 2>&1" in the crontab entry.

Also, I am not familiar with Perl, but is there a switch you can put in the first line of the script that will show each line as it is executed? I am thinking of something similar to "-x" in Korn Shell.

Thanks Bluescreen
I removed the redirect to no affect. The perl script within the sh script runs fine from command line. The issue arises when it’s cron’ed. Incidentally I have several other scripts cron’ed running ok.

With the redirect removed, any error messages or program output should be in unix mail for the owner of the cron.
Is this a "root" cron?
If you find error messages, please post the error messages.

The basic cron log will contain a record of whether the job ran and whether it worked (rc=0) or failed (rc=n).

Please post the line(s) from crontab and the program itself, making it clear who owns the crontab and which user is normally used to run the script.