[ale] More crontab woes

[Mike Fletcher]

>>>>> "Randy" == JANINDRA  <JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM> writes:

    Randy> I am playing around with a perl script that does an X
    Randy> window dump then converts it to .GIF format. The code is
    Randy> below:

[...]
    Randy> the Perl script with no problems. However like I said when
    Randy> I schedule it to be a cron job it refuses to create the
    Randy> "image.xwd" file and skips to the next line. I have also
    Randy> tried to put a few "sleeps" in there but no help.

	The problem probably isn't the command paths, it's the fact
that the cron job may be run with a current directory that can't be
written to (e.g. /).  Give an absolute path to the output files in a
directory that should be writable (e.g. `/tmp/xwd.out_$$') and that
should work.

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