RE: CRONTAB JOB

I think you also need to add -s to your sqlplus, so it runs in silent mode

e.g.
sqlplus -s system....

You might want to add | mailx -s "Name of your table" youremail.com to your cron job

e.g.
04 17 * * 1-5 /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh | mailx -s "Name of your table" youremail.com so you get an email for your job.

I also add into my cron scripts a display of when it starts and when it finishes.

My 2 cents worth.

Kathy
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Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:27 AM
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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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