crontab doesn't work

[lancerine]

Hi,
I'm using Linux AS and trying to assign several shell script to the server.
I have two scripts that are executable (I run them and both worked fine), say script A and script B. When I assign them in crontab, script A works on schedule BUT script B is not running at all.
What is the problem? the content of both scripts are quite similar. This how I write the crontab:
[oracle@10 oracle]$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.17027 installed on Fri Dec 31 17:21:19 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
00 04 * * * /data1/SCRIPT/scriptA.sh
00 11 * * * /data1/SCRIPT/scriptB.sh

Both files have the same owner and have the same privilages/modes.
How can this happen?
Thank you, please help.. it has been weeks just to solve this.

 

[KenCunningham]

Does script B require a slightly different environment (PATH setting etc). This is the most common problem as cron itself runs in a very limited environment, usually insufficient for applications like Oracle etc.

 

[ChrisAC]

Have you had a look in /var/log/cron to see what is going on at the times that the script is supposed to run?

Chris.

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[thedaver]

You HAVE told cron to re-examine the crontab, right?!

kill -HUP `pidof crond`
or
kill -HUP `pidof cron`

Depends how your cron daemon is named, check "ps ax" to be sure.

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[lancerine]

thank you guys, I have found the problem. the script eventually didnt read the crontab PATH correctly, so it can not read exp, imp, or sqlplus.exe. I have correct the PATH and now it works!

Thanks a lot for your help.
Stella