problems running a perl script from rc.local
 

I have a perl script that i run from rc.local so its there when i boot, however, it runs, but it doesn't work....if that makes sense.

If i run it from the command line after boot it works just great.

so i'm not real sure how to describe it.


any ideas?

Well, what's the permissions on the file, the path to the interpreter, and what's the proposed commandline to run it?
What does "perl -w script 2>&1>/tmp/errors.log" give you in the log?
And if you run this line from rc.local?

If you run it from the cli as "perl scriptname" it will work, but if you are using rc.local you must tell it which interpreter to use using a bangline, which is typically #!/usr/bin/perl (though you may have perl elsewhere, and should fix the path accordingly). This must be the first line in the script.