Re: cannot spool the mounted standby database through cron job shell script. Any other suggestions?
- From: Vishal Gupta <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:58:26 +0100
Sundar,
You were not setting PATH environment variable. You need to set it to something
below, after that you dont need to use the full path to sqlplus.
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
Regards,
Vishal Gupta
http://blog.vishalgupta.com
On 27 Jun 2011, at 21:27, sundar mahadevan wrote:
> Hi All,
> changing sqlplus -s /nolog << EOF to "$ORACLE_HOME"/bin/sqlplus -s /nolog <<
> EOF did the trick. Many Thanks for all your help. I am very happy to be part
> of this list. I was making sure that i set my environment right but never
> thought that the complete path of using sqlplus would do the trick. I will
> include the complete path of sqlplus from now on. Good learning.
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Just to see what is happening, please do the following:
>
> 1: modify the cron entry to
> 40 15 * * * /app/oracle/sm/test.sh invest1 > > <full_path>/<name>.log 2>&1
>
> 2: add set -x at the top of the script (right after #!/bin/bash), this will
> set debug mode.
>
> then post all the logs.
>
> cheers
>
>
>
>
> Alan.-
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:46 PM, sundar mahadevan
> <sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Thanks for the response. Here is the complete script. I did set the
> oracle_sid and oracle_home. There are no error messages. The spool file does
> not get created. If i run it from command prompt, i am able to get the spool
> file created. I tested this on 11gse1(linux) as well as 10gr2 EE(AIX). Also i
> tested this on a open database and even it does not create the file. So this
> has nothing to do with the status of the database. Can someone try it out for
> me and let me know if you are facing the same issue. I have all permissions
> to write/create files on the directory.
>
> This is how my cronjob looks: 40 15 * * * /app/oracle/sm/test.sh invest1
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #sqplus will return last archive log applied result to the screen if manually
> run
>
> SCRIPT_DIR=/u01/app/oracle/admin/escenic/standby
> FULL_LOG_NAME=${SCRIPT_DIR}/test.log
>
> export TARGET_SID="$1"
> export TARGET_SID=`echo ${TARGET_SID} | sed -e 's/ //g'`
> export TARGET_SID=`cat /etc/oratab | grep -i "${TARGET_SID}:" | grep -v "^#"
> | cut -d : -f 1`
> export ORACLE_SID=${TARGET_SID}
> export ORACLE_HOME=`cat /etc/oratab | grep ${TARGET_SID}: | grep -v "^#" |
> cut -d : -f 2`
>
> echo "OS->${ORACLE_SID} OH->${ORACLE_HOME}" >> ${FULL_LOG_NAME}
> cd ${SCRIPT_DIR}
> echo "PWD"`pwd` >> ${FULL_LOG_NAME}
> echo "" >> ${FULL_LOG_NAME}
>
> sqlplus -s /nolog << EOF
> set head off
> connect / as sysdba
> spool abcd.log
> select max(sequence#) max_seq from v\$log_history;
> spool off
> quit
> EOF
>
>
> cat test.log
> OS->escenic OH->/u01/app/oracle/11gse1
> PWD/u01/app/oracle/admin/escenic/standby
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Bill Zakrzewski <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is the exact error you are getting?
>
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 2:10 PM, sundar mahadevan wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > Greetings. I have a standby in mount state. I would like to query the
> > latest archive log applied on standby (in mount state) to apply the archive
> > logs from primary with a cron job shell script. When i query "select
> > max(sequence#) from v\$log_history;" from a shell script it works. But if i
> > set it up as cron job as below, it does not work. I cannot assign the
> > output to a shell variable since the database is not open and it would crap
> > out. Any other suggestions? And the reason for this behaviour? Thanks a lot
> > in advance.
> >
> > test.sh
> > #!/bin/bash
> > sqlplus -s /nolog << EOF
> > set head off
> > connect / as sysdba
> > spool last_applied_on_standby.log
> > select max(sequence#) from v\$log_history;
> > spool off
> > quit
> > EOF
>
>
>
>
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