pls someone reply. cannot run cronjob

I have the following cron:

0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51,54,57 * * * * /v/sysadmin/sysnet/file.pl

The .pl has been tried at 755 and 777

The script works if manually run by the web browser or unix command prompt, but I can't get the Cron to do it automatically

i went thru the thread http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-153308

it says "Solution: put the whole env. n the script."
i m using tcsh
what does this mean??

Thanks,
Rahul

nobody will replay to this Q already discussed X000000 times
try to help your self.
man is a good friend, try: man man
btw: man is short for 'manual'

I know. but it was running for more than a month and the cronjob stop running abruptly

pls help

When you login your environment is set (PATH, prompt, other parameters). You can see this with the env command.

You need to get this environment setup at the start of any jobs run from cron, otherwise they (probably) won't work or won't work as they did on the command line.

QUOTE=andyb1ack]When you login your environment is set (PATH, prompt, other parameters). You can see this with the env command.

You need to get this environment setup at the start of any jobs run from cron, otherwise they (probably) won't work or won't work as they did on the command line.[/QUOTE]



hi,

i understand ur point but where and how do i set the environment

following is my cronjob file: (name : temp_cron)
0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51,54,57 * * * * /u/rshah1/temp/test.pl

i did "crontab temp_cron".
now where should i set environment.
please give me complete command and location where to set

thanks,
rahul

You need to set the environment in the actual program that is going to run.

When running a shell script from cron you'd have commands at the top of the script to do this.

Check out post "Building a 'batch job' for crontab" by rct2dotcom. In it I've listed three ways you can do this:



I've never written a perl script so don't know if you can set things like the PATH in it.

If you can't then you can always call the perl script from within a shell script...