Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am facing a problem while scheduling an export of a table using cron job. I have written a simple export command inside a shell script test.sh like
echo started

Code:

exp schemaname/temp1234  file= /test/d.dmp  tables=per_st  log= /test/d.log  
echo ended

I tried scheduling it through cronjob.

Code:

1,2,3 * * * * /test/test.sh  >> /test/test.log

The scheduler runs the script and places the echoed statements in test.log.But the dumps are not being created under respective folders. The export command is not working i guess..
Could anyone suggest any solution for this problem..

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This is the crontab of your database user that is able to do the export? You will have to make sure that you are using the environment of your database user since in cron it will not automatically use all settings like variables etc. that are set up in environment files like .profile etc.

Have a look here too maybe:

https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...n-crontab.html

Code:

exp schemaname/temp1234  file= /test/d.dmp  tables=per_st  log= /test/d.log  

chage for:
exp schemaname/temp1234  file=/test/d.dmp  tables=per_st  log=/test/d.log  

Thanks.. Thers is no syntax problem .The script is working fine when its run from command prompt.

ok, in my system doesn't work with this space

once again, check the posted crontab FAQ.

You should go back to zaxxon's question, regarding the environment, setting ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, etc. (best done by sourcing oraenv in your script).

And do you really want to run the cronjob in three consecutive minutes (1,2,3) every hour?