crontab perl script execution

[Kiel Stirling]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:27, JJB wrote:
> I have perl script A. which runs 2 other perl scripts B. & C. When A
> is run from command line B & C get run. When I put script A in
> /etc/corntab I can see that A does in deed get run, but scripts B &
> C do not. I looked in /var/log/cron and /var/log/messages for error
> messages but there are none. Here are the perl A script statements
> which launch B & C scripts
> system("/root/bin/A.pl"); and system("/root/bin/B.pl");  As an side
> note perl scripts B & C create an sendmail Email if that matters.
> Running 4.9.
> Any body have any idea why this is happening?
> 
Are the scripts marked as executable and does the 1st line reflect the
location of Perl? If not I say that u need to add /usr/bin/perl before
the path to the scripts.

system "/usr/bin/perl /root/bin/A.pl";
system "/usr/bin/perl /root/bin/B.pl";

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Kiel R Stirling.
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