Crontab Perl "Permission denied"

[ZephyrWarrior]

When it runs, it emails me this:

/bin/sh: /usr/www/tempestgaming/public/issues/checksetup.pl: Permission denied

Here is my tab:

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# This is an example entry that would run a program called 
# "blah.pl" in your home directory every hour. The # at the 
# beginning of the line prevents this from actually running.
#
#0 * * * * ~/blah.pl
#
# Here's another way of saying the same thing.
#
#@hourly ~/blah.pl
#
#You can have the results of commands emailed somewhere with
#"MAILTO=your@email.address", but this is not recommended.
MAILTO=TG.ZephyrWarrior@gmail.com
@hourly ~/public/issues/checksetup.pl

Any ideas?

[soja]

chmod +x checksetup.pl ?

What are the permissions on the file?

[Edge100x]

Yes, most likely you forgot to make the file executable. You can also run it using /usr/bin/perl if you wish to continue with it not being marked executable, but it's usually best to chmod +x.

[ZephyrWarrior]

Is there a way to run them directly without waiting for crontab? With FileZilla?

[soja]

The .pl file? You can log into SSH and run the file from there.

[ZephyrWarrior]

Explain it like I'm 5... I'm not very fluent in web hosting. SHH as in SFTP? And where in FileZilla is the option to run that?

[ZephyrWarrior]

Nevermind I feel fairly dumb. Didn't know I needed PuTTy.

[ZephyrWarrior]

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---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
----       RJBS/Email-Send-2.199.tar.gz       ----
    Email::Abstract [requires]
    MIME::Entity [build_requires]
    Mail::Internet [build_requires]
    Email::Simple [requires]
    Return::Value [requires]
    Email::Address [requires]

This is installing BugZilla, found here:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.4/en/htm ... stall-perl

any Sendmail-compatible MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) will suffice. Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim are examples of common MTAs.

I grabbed Postfix, put it on the server (tar.gz), ran it and got

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-bash: ./postfix-2.11.0.tar.gz: cannot execute binary file

Anything I did wrong, please let me know. I feel like such a noob.

[Edge100x]

We already have a local MTA installed (Postfix), so you would not need to install one.

You'll have some difficulty if you need to install a bunch of custom Perl modules, as those normally go into system folders, which you have no access to. There may be some way to install them locally, for just your scripts, but I haven't experimented with this myself.

[ZephyrWarrior]

Nfo support recommended bugzilla for a Google code type ticket system. Are there any alternatives that I can install on my nfo webhosting without such issues?

[Edge100x]

It looks like there are quite a few bug tracking systems out there, but I don't have direct experience with installing any of them, myself, so it's hard to say which ones would work and be a reasonable install (also with reasonable support, good features, etc). I hope that a community member will chip in with something here.