Cron Job for RMAN in OEL5 64 bit Oracle 11g
595789May 7 2008 — edited May 19 2008I am trying to setup a cron job to do a 'scheduled task' as windows refers to it. That is how I have my RMAN jobs execute in windows. I know this can be done in Enterprise Manager, but really would like to wrap my head around cron jobs.
crontab -e
add the line
17 10 * * 3 /location_of_rman_exe target user/pw@sid CMDFILE /location_of_rcv_file log /location_of_log_file
so from what I have been reading this should execute on the 17th minute of the 10th hour, any month of the year, any day of the month, the 3rd day of the week.
I wait for that time to occur and I see nothing execute, so I have two questions here;
1- where does cron jobs write errors to by default in OEL?
2 - is my train of thought correct w/ the syntax above?
Any links or help in this would be great
Steve
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