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12-11-2003

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I remember having a similar problem with a script ran out of cron - turned out because cron was run by root the script could no longer see the correct env.

The fix was to source .profile as the first line of the script, maybe you could check this out.

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If you have some broken unix like some unixware releases make sure your cron file doesnt have any blank lines.

another 0.02$ but i'm betting it is because your oracle env variables are not set when cron is starting your job.

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