cronjob

[bcre3306]

I need to run a cronjob. The only problem I'm having is that I need to to run under a certain account because that account has certain variable for the job to run(oracle). Anybody have any suggestions on how to get this to work? Basically if I login under my oracle account and run the job manually it works fin, if I run it from cron it fails because the variables for the account are not loaded.
Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

The way one of our Oracle jobs is set up to run from the root cron is as follows:

00 21 * * 0 su - <oracleuser> -c &quot;<path to script>&quot;

This makes sure that the appropriate PATH variables etc are picked up and used when running the job in question.

Another way of doing this might be to include the variables explicitly within the script itself.

Hope this helps.

 

[bcre3306]

Thanks alot thats exactly what I needed!!!