While not exactly a Perl question, I hope the members of the monastery will indulge me.

I've got a Perl script on a Solaris server that runs fine from an interactive command line. The script fails when run under cron. The use statements seem to succeed, because the script partially runs and does provide some correct output. The exact error message is 500 Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket" at /home/stella/reach/grades/modules/Vista/Sdk.pm line 333 I'm using LWP and HTTPS, but if Perl couldn't find the OpenSSL libraries, it would have given me a different kind of error, right?

My research leads me to believe this a problem with the environment variables not being the same in the shell vs cron. I've added code in a begin block to change the $ENV variable.

printenv results:

LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
TERM=vt100
SHELL=/bin/sh
SSH_CLIENT=10.173.87.94 3688 22
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/3
USER=reach
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/local/ssl/lib:/local/gnu/lib/:/local/lib/
PATH=/sbin:/local/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/
+openwin/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/
+sfw/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin
MAIL=/var/mail//reach
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
PWD=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Net
EDITOR=pico
TZ=US/Eastern
PS1=\u@\h:\w$
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/stella/reach
LOGNAME=reach
SSH_CONNECTION=10.173.87.94 3688 10.171.240.149 22
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
_=/usr/ucb/printenv
OLDPWD=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/LWP/Protocol
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$ENV. before I change it:

$VAR1 = {
          'HOME' => '/home/stella/reach',
          'LOGNAME' => 'reach',
          'SHELL' => '/usr/bin/sh',
          'TZ' => 'US/Eastern',
          'PATH' => '/usr/bin:'
        };
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$ENV. after I change it:

$VAR1 = {
          'HOME' => '/home/stella/reach',
          'LOGNAME' => 'reach',
          'SHELL' => '/usr/bin/sh',
          'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' => '/local/ssl/lib:/local/gnu/lib/:/local/
+lib',
          'TZ' => 'US/Eastern',
          'PATH' => '/sbin:/local/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/us
+r/bin:/etc:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/
+usr/dt/bin:/usr/sfw/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin'
        };
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Now obviously I didn't bring all the environment variable over into cron, but I can't see how some of them would make a difference.

Any thoughts or suggestions? As always, thank you for your time.

Cheers,

Brent