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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l