View source for CRON and packages

Read the extended for the story behind this. The easy fix for this was to append two back to back commands in cron:

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cd /home/foca/public_html/cslog/p\&b && perl /home/foca/public_html/cslog/p\&b/scan.pl
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That way when CRON runs, it switches to the proper directory and then runs the script. Script checks the local directory and finds the module.

Breakfast time :-)

''Earlier that morning...''

Serves me right for trying to package it up and get it out yesterday morning before going to work. I need to look into either bringing the readconfig.pm into the main script or figure out how a system handles cron runs in regards to relative/static paths. I want to avoid the end user needing to add anything to @INC if possible. The script works fine until I run the cron job on it:

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Can't locate ReadConfig.pm in @INC (@INC contains: (list of paths removed)
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/foca/public_html/cslog/p&b/scan.pl line 28.
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So it works until you try to CRON it, which is the point of the script in the first place. I would like to stay away from needing to edit the main script for each update (i.e. hardcoding the install path).

If I check the path for @INC

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-sh-3.00$ perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC'
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
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I get a return for the current directory at the end.

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-sh-3.00$ perl -e 'use ReadConfig'
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That works from the shell, so my guess is that the issue stems from where the system runs CRON from and attempts to run ReadConfig from that current directory.

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