On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:41:33AM -0500, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 m.roth2006@xxxxxxx wrote: > > >Ok, folks, I'm going nuts. I've set up a cron job to run a script to back > >up Oracle. In the crontab entry, I've got it piping stdout and stderr to > >append to a logfile. It runs late every Thursday night. > > > >Well, allegedly. > > > >I find entries in /var/log/cron saying it ran... but there's no backup, > >and no log. Just this week, I added set -x in the script. > > > >Nada. > > > >Any suggestions? Oh, and yes, if I run it manually, it works just fine. > >The no output log *really* drives me nuts.... > > Any chance that this script is relying on environment variables that are > available in your current session, but would not be in the cron execution? > Are you sourcing any needed environment in the script? Is there anything > in the email that cron sends to the user who owns the cron job that would > give more information? The environmental variables thing is likely the issue. You should set ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME and also update your PATH to include any of the Oracle binaries you'll be needing. Ray -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
