Solaris

Hello. We have recently changed from HP Unix Servers to Solaris. On the HP Severs we were using the POSIX shell. Solaris is using the Bourne sh.

We are using ksh as our default shell after login. The problem we are encountering is when something like Perl or Cron uses the shell to execute a command it is using bin/sh.

We have some perl scripts that run shell scripts inside of them. They are not working as they were designed for POSIX/KSH.

Is there anyway to make perl use a different shell when invoking shell scripting?

Those scripts ought to have the shell they need in their hashbang line.

I will explain further....It's not calling a script.. Here is a line of code in the pearl script:

`sf_write_to_log`;

sf_write_to_log is a script located in another location that is set by the $PATH variable. sh for some reason doesn't use the $PATH and can't find the function.

I can test this by trying these commands at the command line:

> sh sf_write_to_log
sf_write_to_log: sf_write_to_log: cannot open

> ksh sf_write_to_log
working

Cron does not normally run jobs within your normal environment. Try invoking the perl scripts through /usr/bin/env. That should pull the environment you normally have at the command prompt into the cron environment for that script.
E.g. if you have this in your crontab:

Code:

30 2 * * * /home/apm/cron/mycron.pl

try instead:

Code:

30 2 * * * /usr/bin/env /home/apm/cron/mycron.pl

You can then set $HOME, $PATH, $SHELL and anything else you need in your .profile

Andrew

I tried running

Code:

/usr/bin/env my_script.pl

same error. It's still not getting the $PATH

I think the problem is that our default shell is set to KSH and our $PATH is being set there. But perl is running any inline commands using SH. SH doesn't have the $PATH.