Re: CRONTAB JOB

make sure your shell script is executable and put #!/path/to/sh
as the first line in you script

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Hamid Alavi wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a crontab job but this job never started, I have no idea what's
> wrong, actualy i am not a unix person, here is the job:
> cron job name is : qqad.cron
> 04 17 * * 1-5 /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh
> and here is the QQAD_backupscript.sh (in /opt/qqad/sql)
>
> sqlplus system/manager_at_QQAD @COLD_BAKUP_FOR_QQADha.SQL; cold_back.sql is
> generated by COLD_BAKUP_FOR_QQADha.SQL
>
> @/opt/qqad/sql/cold_back.sql;
>
> If I run the job manualy it is going OK but crontab never start.
> Any Idea??
>
>
> Hamid Alavi
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