Re: [Arsperl-users] ARSperl script in crontab

[Mark V. <Mar...@ev...>]

Petee,
It sounds like an environment issue.

In your cron job wherever you are executing the perl script, just run perl -v.

Do you get the same results as when you run it interactively?

Thanks,
Mark Vaughan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piotr Szlązak [mailto:pio...@gm...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:07 PM
> To: ars...@ar...
> Subject: [Arsperl-users] ARSperl script in crontab
> 
> Hi!
> I'm want to create script for report generation. Script should be
> executed by crontab.
> This is a bash script which executes Perl script which is using
> ARSperl. Then bash script sends Perl script output via email.
> 
> When this bash script is executed directly from CLI it runs fine. When
> executed via crontab - every time it ends with segmentation fault.
> Also Perl script executed via crontab ends without any error.
> After some checks I found out that it is enough to use ars_Login
> subroutine to get this error.
> 
> Basic script:
> > cat ARSperl-script.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use strict;
> use ARS;
> my $server = 'server.address.com';
> my $user = 'username';
> my $pass = 'password';
> 
> #Logging in to the server
> ( my $ctrl = ars_Login( $server, $user, $pass ,'', '', 2121, '' ) )
> 	|| die "ars_Login failed: $ars_errstr";
> print "Connected...\n";
> 
> ars_Logoff($ctrl);
> 
> Bash script which is executed via crontab:
> > cat ARSperl-report.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> /full/path/to/script/ARSperl-script.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> I checked that Perl script gathers needed data and gives proper
> output. But I'm always receiving similar mail from Cron daemon:
> /full/path/to/script/ARSperl-report.sh: line 3:  3599 Segmentation
> fault      /full/path/to/script/ARSperl-script.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> Exit code for this Perl script execution is 139. But as I mentioned -
> only when bash script is executed via crontab.
> 
> I need to have clean exit code, because after Perl script call, I'm
> making decision what should be sent - Perl script output or only
> warning about problems.
> 
> Can somebody check if same problem occurs on its platform? Maybe
> somebody knows how to solve this problem?
> 
> Perl version: 5.10.1
> ARSperl version: 1.91
> ARS API version 13
> OS: Debian Linux
> 
> --
> petee
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