#3 Perl jobs hang if external call made w/in program

[Ryan Frantz]

I recently wrote a short one-off script to monitor some processes on a Win32 system. I was forced to include an external call to a utility whose output I need to parse. From the command line, the program works great. When scheduled via CRONw after making the external call, the program never returns. I narrowed this down to CRONw as I can successfully run the job from the ugly Windows Scheduler applet.

Is there a known issue with CRONw calling Perl scripts that contain external calls?