Hi Jon,

You're on Solaris or Linux aren't you?

I think you are describing two different problems right?
~~ Intermittent datasource connection?
~~ Crontab won't run at all?

Because Crontabs are executed by the Server and not a browser on another
machine, the typical problem with Crontabs is that the Server cannot find
the address - even if the target is itself.

Try executing the Crontab from a browser on the Server. On Windows this is
often fixed by entering the target address in the HOSTS file.

And just as a guess, when you add your two problems together it almost
sounds like a Networking issue - the Server cannot resolve an address or
something.

Just guessing - hope this helps.

By the way, I live in Calgary now - maybe we should do lunch sometime :-)

 Cheers.......

Scott Cadillac,
Witango.org - http://witango.org
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From: "Jon van der Raadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Witango-Talk: Oracle datasource error


>
> I am getting the following error from Tango -- it seems to be having
> difficulty sometimes connecting to the database.  This only happens
> sometimes -- the same taf runs the next time.  Our crontab job always
> fails but if I execute the taf manually, it is successful...
>
> [Error] -4 Unable to connect to the specified data source. Verify that
> data source is properly configured and that database server is online.
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