Oracle-L: RE: RMAN and cron

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:13:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0052130F.20021223071338@fatcity.com>

Ron,

my guess is that your profile file is not being executed by the cron process properly.

try changing your test.sh script to explicitly point to your profile file. paths are not set properly by cron because the cron job is executed by a system account, not the oracle account. secondly, try placing debug statements (like echo $ORACLE_HOME >> /alphaprd/rman_test.log

in your test.sh script after you call your profile job to see what is happening there. I'll bet you a powerball ticket that I'm right.

hope this helps

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:24 AM
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list,
Cron server os RedHat 7.2
Database server os OpenVMS 7.3-1
Database Oracle 8.1.7 rel 3
Rman server os OpenVMS 7.3-1
Rman Oracle 8.1.7 rel 3

On the Cron server I have created a script that will backup the database server and catalog the action on the rman server. When I try to have cron perform the backup sctipt I get RMAN-571 and LEM-00031, and LEM-00033 error message. According to Metalink it is an environmental error that the oracle variables are not set. I have set up my environment as follows:

file: /alphaprd/profile

ORACLE_HOME = cron server ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_BASE =cron server ORACLE_BASE LD_LIBRARY_PATH = cron server LD_LIBRARY_PATH TNS_ADMIN = cron server TNS_ADMIN
export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_BASE LD_LIBRARY_PATH TNS_ADMIN

Script to backup the database controlfile: test.sh

./alphaprd/profile
echo "start backup:" >/alphaprd/rman_test.log /home/oracle/OraHome1/bin/rman <<EOF>> /alphaprd/rman_test.log connect target "sys/password_at_database server" connect catalog rman/rman_at_rman server
run {
allocate channel di type disk;
backup format
'orabck:[backups]control_%U.bus'
(current controlfile);
}
EOF Crontab entry as ROOT:
10 01 * * 1 su oracle "-c /alphaprd/test.sh -u"

OR
Crontab entry as ORACLE
10 01 * * 1 /alphaprd/test.sh

The script functions properly if I run it from the command line as oracle but fails with
RMAN-571 and LEM-00031 and LEM-00033 errors when run from cron.

I don't see how it could be Oracle environmentals when I am running it as an Oracle cron and the target and catalog are on a different server that the cron server.
Can you point me in the direction where I can get this resovled? Thanks,
Ron
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