Re: Cronjob misbehaving

Simon --

One of the things that many people (even some of the more experienced unix types) tend to forget is that cron doesn't source the user's profile. This is why a script might work just fine from the prompt, but fail when submitted through cron.

So, the solution would be either:

1. Make sure your script sources the user's .profile or, better yet:
2. Adopt a standard by which any script you may want to possibly submit through cron defines the important environment settings ($ORACLE_SID, $ORACLE_HOME, $PATH, etc.)
   • James

Simon Waibale wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Thanx for all the good work U R doing for Oracle.
> I have a misbehaving cronjob
>
> -------------Cron Entry
> 0 5 * * * /usr/scripts/recompile.sh > /ops/scripts/recompile.log 2>&1
>
> -------------recompile.sh
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> ## Program name : recompile.sh
> ## Purpose : Recompile Invalid Database Objects for specified Shema in
> FLAG
> ## Author : C.S Waibale Simon
> ## Date written : 2002-03-19
>
> #for i in FLAGPASS CALLSPASS FLAGPASS CH1PASS CH2PASS CH3PASS ; do
> #j:=1
> #$i=${i:-$(crypt flag < passwds |awk '{print $j}')
> #done
>
> SQLPLUS=/ops/product/817/bin/sqlplus
> #Do not export the password variables !
> FLAGPASS=${FLAGPASS:-$(crypt flag < /usr/scripts/passwds |awk '{print $1}')}
> CALLS_PASS=${CALLS_PASS:-$(crypt flag < /usr/scripts/passwds |awk '{print
> $2}')}
> WHPASS=${WHPASS:-$(crypt flag < /usr/scripts/passwds |awk '{print $3}')}
> echo "Recompiling Invalid Database Objects in the FLAG instance"
> #This can be sustitued with generic code
> $SQLPLUS flag_calls/$CALLS_PASS_at_flag.mtn.co.ug @/ops/rom/recompile.sql
> $SQLPLUS flag/$FLAGPASS_at_flag.mtn.co.ug @/ops/rom/recompile.sql
> $SQLPLUS flag_wh/$WHPASS_at_flag.mtn.co.ug @/ops/rom/recompile.sql
>
> ---------recompile.log
> Recompiling Invalid Database Objects in the FLAG instance
> Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
> Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
> Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
> Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
> Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
> Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
>
> What could be broken ??
> The script runs correctly from comand prompt.
>
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