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In article <5d75e934.0205091028.5f417b68_at_posting.google.com> edzard_at_volcanomail.com writes:
>I had a problem with the cron jobs too (on HP/UX 11i). This was not an
>Oracle issue though. It appears that the cron job does not go through
>the profiles like a regular interactive login. That leaves the
>environment almost uninitialised, especially PATH is not defined. So
>the job does not find oraenv, for instance.
This is the standard behaviour of unix cron. The 'cron' used by linux distributions is actually Vixie cron and this trips up lots of people moving from linux to a more mainstream *nix system and expecting the same behaviour.
Philip
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