Running perl with CRON

[redxdev]

Hi, I am not too familiar with CRON, but I need to run a pearl script with it every 30 minutes. I have the timing set up, but I have a few other questions:

1. Should I run 'perl /dir/script.pl' or '/dir/script.pl' or something else?
2. Should I be setting the directory to something like '/home/redxdev/dir/script.pl' or '/dir/script/pl'?

I think what I'm generally asking is what should the command be?

 

[misson]

1. Should I run 'perl /dir/script.pl' or '/dir/script.pl' or something else?
2. Should I be setting the directory to something like '/home/redxdev/dir/script.pl' or '/dir/script/pl'?

I think what I'm generally asking is what should the command be?

`/usr/bin/perl /home/redxdev/dir/script.pl` should work. If you set executable permissions on the file (e.g. 711) and start the file with a shebang line, you can also use `/home/redxdev/dir/script.pl` as the command line. Any reference to '/dir/script.pl' won't work because there's nothing at that pathname and cron doesn't use chroot.

If you're developing on a MS platform, make sure you FTP the file in ASCII mode so it uses Unix line endings. I also recommend trying to run the script as as CGI script (which will probably require tweaking it) to check that it works on X10.