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Old 06-28-2005
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Originally Posted by mbattreall
Once cron references the script shouldn't the script already know where to go?
no, it doesn't as it's referencing relative paths which are not the same as they are under comman line shell.
Therefore, either make sure that your script does not make any refereneces to the relative paths.
OR
change your script so that it derives the paths from a constant location - for example the path to the script itself.

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Originally Posted by mbattreall
Below is a listing from cron and it is already in the correct directory?

30 07 * * * /images_1/messages/message_log.pl
# 9  
Old 06-28-2005
Awesome thanks for you help!

Now the only problem, which it is not that much of a problem is that it dumps the file into the root directory rather than /images_1/messages?
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