Re: Using perlbrew to change Perl version for scripts

[Shawn H Corey]

On 12-06-03 06:00 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

The cron jobs don't use the system Perl, but they use the first Perl
found in PATH.
If those cron jobs won't find any Perl in PATH, they won't run at all.
And you, or Perlbrew or somebody else should set a default PATH for the
shell which is used by the cron jobs if you want a certain version of
Perl to be run.

According to crontab(5), /usr/bin/perl



SHELL=/bin/bash

Then change each Perl entry to:

* * * * * /home/my_username/bin/init_perlbrew.sh my_script.pl arg1 arg2






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Copy the attached to your bin and add this line to the top of your crontab file: Replacing the asterisks, my_username, my_script.pl, and its arguments with the appropriate values. Now, when you `perlbrew switch`, the next time a cron(8) job starts, it will run under the switched perl. Those currently running will not changed; they would have to be stopped and restarted.

init_perlbrew.sh
Description: application/shellscript

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