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# 8  
Old 11-21-2006
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Originally Posted by Minguccio75
Excuse me... but the path is correct... Smilie
The path is correct, but is the perl binary there? Smilie
# 9  
Old 11-21-2006
Sorry but I receave always the following output:

Your "cron" job on suncbk11
/usr/local/bin/perl /export/home/x2693/project/scripts/test.pl 1 0 0

produced the following output:

Can't open perl script "/export/home/x2693/project/scripts/test.pl": No such file or directory


Smilie Smilie Smilie
# 10  
Old 11-21-2006
As has already been asked what do you get if you run the same command from the command line?
# 11  
Old 11-21-2006
Check that:
* /export/home/x2693/project/scripts/test.pl exists and has the appropriate perms,
* the first line of /export/home/x2693/project/scripts/test.pl is like:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

* /usr/local/bin/perl exists and has the appropriate perms.
# 12  
Old 11-21-2006
Is there a space or other non-printing char at the end of the filename?

If you can run it in an interactive shell and are using autocomplete you might not even be aware of this.

Also if the directory is NFS mounted, does the crontab user have read permissions on the directory/mountpoint?
# 13  
Old 11-21-2006
Reply to:

As has already been asked what do you get if you run the same command from the command line?

Johnf,
if I run the same command from the command line, I have no problem:
the programm run very well.
Last edited by Minguccio75; 11-21-2006 at 12:27 PM..
# 14  
Old 11-21-2006
Reply to:

Check that:
* /export/home/x2693/project/scripts/test.pl exists and has the appropriate perms,
* the first line of /export/home/x2693/project/scripts/test.pl is like:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

* /usr/local/bin/perl exists and has the appropriate perms.


1.This are the permission of the test file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 x2693 3143 Nov 21 14:21 test.pl

2. #!/usr/local/bin/perl is on the first line of the programm

3. /usr/local/bin/perl exist
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