CRON and SQLPLUS

Question

I want to run a script, which contains some sqlplus commands, in cron.

The problem is, that the sqlplus command won\'t be executed for some reason, when executed in cron

Answer 1

shell environment is very important for Oracle and almost not there when using cron. As always there are several ways to solve this.

1. use full qualified paths - a bit inflexible
2. make the script to setup it's own execution environment
3. setup the execution environment in cron, when calling the script.

A pretty much standard way of setting up your environment from withing the script is by using the oraenv script, normally located in /usr/local/bin

ORACLE_SID={your_sid}
ORAENV_ASK=NO
type oraenv >/dev/null 2>&1 || PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
. oraenv
SQLPATH=$HOME/sql
export SQLPATH
do your stuff

from the cron line:

10 10 * * * $HOME/.profile;$HOME/bin/your_script >$HOME/log/your_script.log 2>&1

This assumes that the .profile is not interactive and export the needed environment.