On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Security wrote: > crond likes full pathnames is my first thought. Thats likely why it works > from the command line and not crond. > > Tom > > >Any ideas why the following won't actually send email when run from cron: > > > >#!/usr/bin/perl > ># > > > >open(SENDMAIL,"|sendmail $recipient");
crond runs with the compiled-in default PATH of the shell, usually PATH=/bin:/usr/bin "sendmail" is elsewhere. Using full pathnames to programs is a common solution. The alternative is to explicitly set a PATH in the script. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Supercity Internet Services http://www.supercity.ns.ca
