Thanks David, and everyone else for all your help. Unfortunately, I've done all this, specifying the variables etc and it still doesn't appear to like it much! I don't know whether it's because it's written in the CSH and not for KSH...I'll keep looking.
Thanks again, Kev. "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." __________________ Kevin Thomas Technical Analyst Deregulation Services Calanais Ltd. (2nd Floor East - Weirs Building) Tel: 0141 568 2377 Fax: 0141 568 2366 http://www.calanais.com -----Original Message----- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2001 21:21 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thomas, I got called to task before on this, but I didn't save the note, so whoever corrected me, please do so again. In any case, cron jobs in UNIX are (and this is where I was corrected - although what follows should solve your problem) executed by root. This is why Mike suggested running the .profile to properly set up the environment to find and execute sqlplus. The user who "owns" the cron job is invoked by root without all the proper environmental variables set. As an alternative you can explicitly set your variables at the beginning of the shell script as follows (for ksh): #!/bin/ksh export ORACLE_SID=ifas export ORACLE_HOME=/u001/app/oracle/product/8.1.7 export PATH=$PATH:/u001/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin export ORACLE_BASE=/u001/app/oracle export HOME=$ORACLE_HOME cd $HOME Hope this helps. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002 "Thomas, Kevin" <Kevin.Thomas@cal To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> anais.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Crontabs and Oracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/2001 05:00 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L Guys, I have a Unix shell script that runs and does some things with sqlplus. The script runs fine when I start it up manually just using the command $ host_startup.sh However, If I try to start this host_startup.sh from the Crontab I get this error logged in my mail. >From apt2 Wed Nov 28 08:15:01 2001 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:15:01 GMT Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: apt2 Content-Length: 143 Your "cron" job on phys-ki-sun4k2 /ki-sun4k2/export/home/apt2/ta_web/host/host_startup.sh produced the following output: sqlplus: Command not found Any ideas? I've specifically said in the shell script where to find the sqlplus binaries, so I'm not sure?! Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Kev. "I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. " __________________ Kevin Thomas Technical Analyst Deregulation Services Calanais Ltd. (2nd Floor East - Weirs Building) Tel: 0141 568 2377 Fax: 0141 568 2366 http://www.calanais.com -----Original Message----- Sent: 21 November 2001 12:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Have a look at Categoric Xalerts. It is a general purpose Alerting system, not just for DBA and SYSADMs. Their new Java based system is just out. www.categoric.com Steve Parker Technical Consultant LIS ------------------------------ Logistics & Internet Systems Ltd. E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Kumanan Balasundaram <kumanan.balasundara To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Sent by: Subject: Reliable alerting system that is not so costly?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/11/2001 11:50 Please respond to ORACLE-L Hi there, Any of you using or have come across a reliable alert system that can also escalate to different persons based on criteria such as how important that system is? We are looking to invest in such a software. 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