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Problem with Cron
Name: Vladan Date: October 25, 2002 at 13:34:52 Pacific OS: Red Hat 7.2 CPU/Ram: 512M
Comment:
I have a problem with cron that runs export utility (exp) from oracle/bin. When I put in shell script "copy" command,cron works! But,when I want to run exp utiluty,it does not work! Should I put some PATH, or something else?
Name: David Perry Date: October 25, 2002 at 13:45:12 Pacific
Reply:
Yes you have a path problem. Easy to check. Put a line like
echo $PATH
at the start of your script and look at the result the next time it runs.
easy to fix
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/oracle/bin/ or execute the exp executable with a full path name.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kenan Bektas Date: October 25, 2002 at 15:05:47 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure you have a line below at the beginning of export script.
#!/bin/sh ...
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Response Number 3
Name: Sean Miller Date: October 25, 2002 at 22:50:50 Pacific
Reply:
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp ....
Sean
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Response Number 4
Name: zaxxon Date: October 27, 2002 at 09:48:07 Pacific
Reply:
You should set all your environment variables within the script that is being called by cron. For an oracle export these should include ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, and make sure PATH has your oracle bin directory in it. If this is a unicode database you should also set NLS_LANG. Now here's the trick when you call the script from your crontab file make sure you call it with a '. scriptfile' notice the .filename. This is to make sure that the environment variables that you setup within the script will be available.
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Response Number 5
Name: zaxxon Date: October 27, 2002 at 10:14:09 Pacific
Reply:
in my previous thread it is not obvious that you need a space after the '.' and before the script name in the crontab file. (just to clarify)
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