Cron Errors

To help answer this there are two more pieces of information for starters.

(i) The text in the shell script needs to be shown to us so please append this to the question

and

(ii) The result of echo $PATH

Thanks

Vince
 

Body of Script:
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#!/bin/ksh
#:
# ***************************************************************************
# * File    @(#): run_test_connection.sh                                    *
# * Date        : 06-MAY-2004                                               *
# * Version     : 1.0.0.0                                                   *
# * Author      : PSG                                                       *
# * Purpose @(#): UNIX Environment administration for Oracle.               *
# *                                                                         *
# *               This script checks connections to databases. Send email   *
# *               alert if connections not being accepted.                  *
# *                                                                         *
# * Parameters  :                                                           *
# ***************************************************************************
# * Change History                                                          *
# *                                                                         *
# *    Date     Done By           Vers  Description                         *
# * ---------   ----------------  ----  ------------------------------------*
# ***************************************************************************
#

cd /opt/bin

for LNE in `cat /var/opt/oracle/oratab | grep -v '^#' | grep -v '*' | grep -v 'i
ds' `
do
  DB=`echo ${LNE} | cut -f1 -d:`
  AUTO_START=`echo ${LNE} | cut -f3 -d:`

  if test $AUTO_START = "Y"
  then
    . /opt/bin/ora_${DB}.env

    # Submit the Oracle task in the background
    nohup /opt/bin/test_connection.sh > /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora 2>&1 &

    # Wait for 30 seconds
    sleep 30

    # Check for ORA- errors
    check_stat=`cat /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora | grep -i ORA- | wc -l`
    oracle_num=`expr $check_stat`
    if [ $oracle_num -gt 0 ]
    then
      cnt=`cat /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora | wc -l`

      cp -p /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.wrk

      lne=1

      while [ $lne -le $cnt ]
      do
        head -1 /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.wrk > /tmp/line
        err_chk=`cat /tmp/line | grep -i ORA- | wc -l`
        if [ $err_chk -gt 0 ]
        then
          ora_err=`cat /tmp/line | grep -i ORA- | cut -c5-9`
          oerr ORA $ora_err >> /tmp/connect.err
          echo "" >> /tmp/connect.err
          echo "Log in as Oracle and run the Oracle Administration menu by typin
g runmenu.sh at the command prompt." >> /tmp/connect.err
          echo "" >> /tmp/connect.err
          echo "Select the $ORACLE_SID    Database Administration Menu and selec
t Start $ORACLE_SID Database NORMAL option" >> /tmp/connect.err
        fi
        sed '1d' /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.wrk > /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.tmp
        mv /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.tmp /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.wrk
        lne=`expr $lne + 1`
      done
    else
      rm /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora 2>/dev/null
    fi

    if [ -f /tmp/connect.err ]
    then
      #mailx -s "HIDDEN"< /tmp/connect.err
      mailx -s "SERVER: WARNING - $ORACLE_SID not accepting connections" HIDDEN
 < /tmp/connect.err
      rm /tmp/connect.err 2>/dev/null
      #rm /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora 2>/dev/null
      #rm /tmp/line 2>/dev/null
      #rm /tmp/check_$ORACLE_SID.ora.wrk 2>/dev/null
    fi
 fi
done


PATH
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/usr/bin:.:/usr/sbin:/etc:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ucblib:/usr/openwin/bin:/app/oracle/product/live/8.1.7:/app/oracle/product/live/8.1.7/bin:/export/home/oracle:/export/home/oracle/scripts:/export/home/ss

I would suggest you try this

crontab -l > /tmp/cron
crontab -l > /tmp/cron_b                                                               (N.B Just as a backup of the original)
vi /tmp/cron

Edit the file so that it looks like this:

00,15,30,45 08-18 * * 1-5 /bin/sh -c '/opt/bin/run_test_connection.sh'
00,15,30,45 08-18 * * 1-5 /bin/sh -c '/opt/bin/run_lsnr_check.sh'

save the file {ESC}:wq!

crontab < /tmp/cron

This should give the cron the same environment as running it from a prompt.

Vince

It is the ENV seting, the PATH setting for cron is in the /etc/default/cron
file.

man cron
man crontab
to learn more details.

You can modify the script to FULL path for commands, eg:
use "/usr/bin/cut" instead of "cut", OR defind PATH etc in the sctipt before
all the command. OR, "source" a ENV setting file (eg a login script):

#!/bin/ksh
. /path-to/.profile        # a Dot SPACE then /path-to/.profile
# following by the script body
....
#End of script.

If you are 100% sure that the script works in the user (eg fred's) login
ENV, you can also use root's crontab to run the script as user fred, see
the example in:
http:Q_20651566.html#8745475

Cheers guys - I'll give your suggestions a try and get back to you to how it goes.

Cheers for all your replies guys - its appreciated.

It turns out it was exactly what tfewster said about the ora_${DB}.env call overwriting the default PATH. When we traced it to the related script - thats exactly what it was doing and we were able to sort it.