/etc/profile is not executed when bash is started non-interactively. So when cron starts NewsClipper.pl the NEWSCLIPPER environment variable is not set. Try to set it in your crontab. bye, Jan On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:25:18PM -0500, Jayme Frye wrote: > I've installed the latest rev 1.0102. My problem of NewsClipper.pl not > finding the system wide config file persists. My installation procedure > was: I removed all files from the previous rev before installing the new > version. I su to root, cd to the distribution directory and "ran perl > Makefile.PL". I selected 2 system wide install and /usr/etc/ for the > config file location. I then ran make, make install, and make > NewsClipper_Cleanup. I the edited /etc/profile adding > NEWSCLIPPER=/usr/etc, made sure it was exported and for good measure > rebooted. > Again from the command line I can run NewsClipper.pl as any user and it > works fine. As a cron job it fails with this message: > > Can't locate NewsClipper.cfg in @INC (@INC contains: > /home/minivend/.NewsClipper /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i686-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/bin/NewsClipper.pl line 106. -- Jan Peter Hecking - University of Rostock - Dept. of Computer Science eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (icq #14643959) /\/\ public key: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~jhecking/pgp \--/ fingerprint: 18 91 55 54 62 67 CC 71 05 5F C7 AE E4 F3 B7 D9 \/ - If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes) or use the form provided at http://www.NewsClipper.com/TechSup.htm#MailingList.
