[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This may be a bit off topic, but I'll ask it.. > > I have a perl job I want to run out of a cron job, However cron is not > reading my .cshrc file by default.
That is the way cron works. It has a VERY limited environment. > So what I have to do is "wrap" the perl > job in a tcsh shell and then run the shell file out of cron. You don't have to do it that way. > Is there a better way? Or maybe the real question is should I be > "hardcoding" the var's out of my .cshrc file in my perl script? I think > this may be a bad thing to do, but isn't this what I'm doing in the .cshrc > file? Use an absolute (full) path for every file like 'c:/windows/system/somefile.dat' on Windows or '/usr/local/share/somefile.dat' on Unix. If you need environment variables then set then up through the %ENV hash like $ENV{PATH} = '/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin'. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]