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# 8  
Old 11-13-2014
ps shows a cron process and it is owned by root user

i dont get any search results for grep cron /var/log/messages

I am newbie here to my company, so not sure i can configure mail

please advise
# 9  
Old 11-13-2014
I'm out of ideas. Have your sys admins help you.
# 10  
Old 11-13-2014
Well next thing is, is the user oracel allowed to use corn (sorry Im dislecsic today if you see funny things...) : Do you have /var/adm/cron/cron.* files (.deny or .allow ) if so what is in them...
try with this order:
Code:
30 02 * * 3 /u01/vijay/hotbackupcron >> /u01/vijay/hotbackup.log  2>&1

oracle has permission to write in /u01/vijay ?

This should not be set:
Code:
ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM

Using cron, you have no terminal and cron will complain if it sees anything terminal or keyboard stuff ( tty ...)
Last edited by vbe; 11-13-2014 at 09:01 AM..
# 11  
Old 11-13-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by vijaymec50
i dont get any search results for grep cron /var/log/messages
Check for other log files in /var/log as well (e.g. syslog & cron.log)
# 12  
Old 11-13-2014
What's the permissions of your script, and the directory it's in?

Code:
ls -la /u01/vijay/hotbackupcron
ls -lad /u01/vijay

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# 13  
Old 11-14-2014
Hope I found the answer . there are no exceute permissions on the cron scripts

i gave the execute permissions by chmod +x hotbackupcron

hope it should run tonight and i will post reply tomorrow morning
# 14  
Old 11-14-2014
Code:
chmod +x hotbackupcron

To who? The owner? the group? other?...
In other words you haven't tested your script...
Before posting "I have issues with a script in cron" you should have tested : That means as oracle, does the script gets executed!
If not, solve the issue before thinking to execute it as a batch using cron...
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