Perl, DBI and CRON

[plotzer]

I know there is an easy solution to this but I am not sure how to designate the path to my DBI module library within a perl file so the perl script can be run under cron. When the script dows run in cron I get an error that the oracle dbi library cannot be located. I assume this is because the root user running cron does not know where it is. Can the path be set within the perl script itself?

Thanks

 

[icrf]

There's a hash called %ENV that contains environment variables, path being one of them. A better way to point to modules in perl5 is

use lib '/path/to/module';

This is just a nice way to add a directory to perl's library search path @INC. I don't know if your issue is about finding a driver and not a module and if it makes any difference. I suppose the path environment should clear things up if use lib doesn't.

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