How can I schedule a Oracle Procedure in Unix

Use cron:

As Oracle, do `crontab -e`
Insert a line:
minute hour monthday * * /path/to/script

Remember that cron doesn't use your .profile etc, so ensure the script explicitly sets all paths & variables that it will need.

(man cron & man crontab for the full info :)

If the oracle user doesn't have permission to use cron, you can add them to cron.allow OR have root's crontab kick off the command with
minute hour monthday * * su - oracle -c /path/to/script

If your script doesn't send stdout & stderr to a log file itself, you can redirect the output within cron; Otherwise, any output will be sent to the owner of the cron job as a mail message. (I hate it when that happens, as noone ever reads their unix mail file, and they just grow forever ;-)

syathm, did that answer your question? If you need more explanation of cron, please let me know.

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