Re: ORA-12545 When running the job from Crontab ...

On May 3, Janardhana Babu scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

->The reason for changing the username and password is: This is how my
->developers are using to login from pro*c programs on all the boxes which is
->working fine except on this box.
->
->If run this program manually, it runs ok. Gets into the DB and gets out.
->When run thru crontab, it generates ora-12545 error. Any clues?

remember when you run through a cron job it does not pick up any of your environment at all. you need to set the shell and the ORACLE environment variables for ti to work correctly.

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Bill Thater             Certified ORACLE DBA
Telergy, Inc.            thaterw_at_telergy.net
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