You can use this code in both crontabs: * * * * * $(if [ -x ${your_script} ]; then ${your_command};fi) Only the active node will see the script executable and will execute it. HTH Dimitre Radoulov ETNØTEAM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Madhu R. Vajrala" <Vajrala.Madhusudana@xxxxxxxx> To: "Oracle-L (E-mail)" <Oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:55 PM Subject: Crontab - HA > Hi All, > > We recently implemented V.C.S. The only problem we had so far is with > the "CRONTAB". Whenever the database(service group) fail-over to the > other server in cluster, I will have to manually comment the entries in > the crontab file in the primary server. I would like this to be taken > care of automatically w/o DBA intervention. probably you might have hit > the similar situation in the past, please advise from your experiences > on how to handle. > > > Thank You, > Madhu > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l