Perl script works but not via CRON

Question

I have a perl script (which syncs delicious to wp) which:

1. runs via the shell but
2. does not run via cron (and i dont get an error)

The o

Answer 1

Based on your crontab, and depending on your installation, the problem might be the "perl". As others note the environment, particularly the $PATH variable, is different for cron. perl may not be in the path so you need to put the full path to perl in the cron command.

You can determine the path with the command $ type perl