Standard question with common cron issues ... are you sourcing your environment so all oracle parameters are set correctly ? On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, sundar mahadevan < sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > >