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- From: kono@csl.sony.co.jp (Shinji Kono)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Difficulties running a Perl/tip job from cron
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.114142.21003@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 11:41:42 GMT
- References: <DOWDING.92Nov20113240@palm.ai.sri.com>
- Sender: daemon@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
- Reply-To: kono@csl.sony.co.jp
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- Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc.
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- In article <DOWDING.92Nov20113240@palm.ai.sri.com> ,
- dowding@ai.sri.com (John Dowding) writes
- >The details: I want to run a daily program that logs into a remote
- >(non-unix site), runs a variety of commands to download some
- >information (OK, basketball box scores), and exits.
-
- Now there are many tip like programs with macro commands. For example,
- xcomm, tipx or pcomm. You may not like them, though. So I wrote
- a tip in perl.
-
- >This script works fine when called from the csh command line, but
- >when called from cron fails with an infinite loop of
- >"can't synchronize with hayes" messages.
-
- I'm not sure but you can check ~/.tiprc. Did you try it in /bin/sh by
- hand?
-
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- Shinji Kono @ kono@csl.sony.co.jp
- Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc,Japan
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