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cdarke
Problems with jobs failing to run in cron are almost always because of the environment. Note: these are cron issues and nothing to do with Perl.<br><br>Shells call start-up files on initialisation, and they call different start-up files depending on:<br>
a) the shell type, e.g. sh, csh, ksh88, ksh93, bash, behave differently.<br>
b) if this is a logon shell<br>
c) if this is an interactive shell<br><br>We have no way of knowing for sure which shell you are using. However, a best guess is that you have a .profile and/or a .kshrc, or maybe .bash_profile and/or .bashrc. If you are using these, then you may need to "source" them before feh will run (that is using the "dot" command : <b>.</b> in sh or ksh, "source" in csh or bash). That would require a shell script containing the "source" command followed by the call to feh.<br><br>It would be better to put the environment settings in your perl script instead, but that would require you to actually know which settings are affecting the feh program.
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