Re: [cobalt-developers] POP3 before smtp

[Chuck <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:

> > In any event, being a perl buff, I am curious as to why the shell commands
> > did not execute properly. I tried the same program as a cgi-script, and I
> 
> Well, you'll need to check the difference between running in a shell window and running from cron. Does your script depend on any enviroment variables? (for example PATH?)

Sometimes the difference lies in running foreground or background. A
command in perl launched with the `command` method inherits from perl the
console. "top" will only run if the console is a terminal or terminal
window. In this case nothing to do with env vars.