The relevant part of /var/adm/cron/log may help.. it'll at least tell you if it's kicking off.
I've seen folks who source their profile before running a job, e.g.
I would recommend putting that all into its own script instead if muddying the crontab file with the literal contents of what you're trying to do due to the aforementioned environment and variable expansion issues.
Remember that cron does not "log in" so all of the nice stuff that works for an interactive login to a shell must be dealt with and setup explicitly
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Last edited by rbatte1; 01-24-2017 at 08:11 AM..
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This isn't the usual problem that a shell script runs from the command line and not the cron. It's a little different.
Among other things, the shell scrip executes my .profile to set a bunch of variables. It then does an env to ensure that it ran OK.
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Hi frnds...
I m facing very irritating problem already waisted my 2 days..
I have a following script..( i am pasting only the main code)
ftp -ivn 213.194.40.77 <<FTP
user $user $password
binary
cd $FileDir/out
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get $file
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The script checks for free space stats on Oracle. If there are any tablespaces with more than 85% usage it prints the details of the tablespace. If all the tablespaces have more than 15% free space, then "All tablespaces have more than 15 pct free space" must be printed on the screen.
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Status quo is, within a web application, which is coded completely in php (not by me, I dont know php), I have to fill out several fields, and execute it manually by clicking the "go" button in my browser, several times a day.
Thats because:
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Hi,
I have a shell script as below:
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export ORACLE_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH
OUTFILE=/export/home/`basename $0`.out
export OUTFILE
export IDEN
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Hi have a script which transferers from Microsoft server to Linux box.
The scripts(ksh) is on Linux box.
If I run script from terminal, it transfers files to directory. Where as If
I run script from CRON. It does not.
Here is the log of both:
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Dear Experts,
Once again i need your vital help to fix my issue, please do the needfull.
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Hi Experts,
Iam bit poor in shell scripting,
Here my requirement is for generating an alert where the oracle database db_recovery_file_dest_size usage. If it reaches beyond 80% should recieve an alert through an email.
Want to schedule this alert in cron.
#!/bin/bash
.... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I created a script which connects to database and update a table.
This script is running fine when i run it manually but when i am trying to execute it scheduling in crontab.script is executing but Data is not getting updated.
below is my script
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Hello All,
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