Perl can't find module when run from cron.daily

Question

I have perl programs that use Net::Finger and have run successfully from cron.daily in Fedora 11.
I just upgraded a server to Fedora 18 and the

Answer 1

What happens if you add this to the top of the script?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib "/root/perl5/lib/perl5/Net";

Was this previously set in the .profile?

This is from a ubuntu thread, but may be related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work *Cron passes a minimal set of environment variables to your jobs. To see the difference, add a dummy job like this:

* * * * * env > /tmp/env.output*

I don't have a linux box handy at the moment, but I would try to see what's different in the @INC by running the following logged in as root and trying to set up a job to see what the crontab has. The env output above may indicate a different shell is being used by crontab, than what you may have set when logging in as root.

log in as root and run:

perl -le 'print for @INC'

set up a cron job to see the differences. I'm not sure if this syntax will work, but you could put the command in a simple pl script.

* * * * * perl -le 'print for @INC' > /tmp/inc.output

do the same for env