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Old 02-05-2009
Solaris 10.5 perl and cron job execution problem
Hi,
I want to run a crontab job on solaris 10.5. I have configured the crontab accordingly
Code:
10 * * * * /scripts/dbalter.pl >> /scripts/cronout.txt

However this does not work .Then I go to /var/mail/root and find an error in the output:
Code:
From root@myserver Wed Feb  4 17:02:00 2009
Return-Path: <root@myserver>
Received: from myserver (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by myserver (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n14N20Rx027373
        for <root@myserver>; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST)
Received: (from root@localhost)
        by myserver (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id n14N20Is027371
        for root; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Super-User <root@myserver>
Message-Id: <200902042302.n14N20Is027371@myserver>
To: root@myserver
Subject: Output from "cron" command
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 136

Your "cron" job on myserver
/usr/bin/perl/ /scripts/dbalter.pl

produced the following output:

sh: /usr/bin/perl/: cannot execute

bash-3.00£ env
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/sbin/sh
SSH_CLIENT=138.85.45.27 28249 22
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
OLDPWD=/
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2
USER=root
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAIL=/var/mail//root
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
PWD=/var/adm
EDITOR=vi
TZ=US/Central
SHLVL=1
HOME=/
LOGNAME=root
SSH_CONNECTION=138.85.45.27 28249 10.25.30.190 22
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
_=/usr/bin/env

Also I want to mail the output to an outlook account. Please let me know about it. I really appreciate the help.

Regards
Sonu
Last edited by otheus; 02-10-2009 at 11:15 AM.. Reason: formatting and [code] tags
# 2  
Old 02-10-2009
The first line of your script should look like
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

and NOT like
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl/

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