Database Software

Hi,

I've searched the forum but didn't see any similar problems. I'm trying to set up a simple remote job. The DB is on UNIX and the remote agent is on Windows XP on my laptop. Unfortunately I'm getting the following errors. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Owen

on user_scheduler_job_run_details
STANDARD_ERROR="Launching external job failed: Couldn't fork process"

On the remote host's agent.log
2009.07.10 11:27:10 BST Log ID: job_1115953_41 Name: SINGLETONO.TEST_JOB Source: chasdwdbdev.ins-sure.com : 9999 Source DB: DWODSD01.XCHANGING.COM Command: c:\python26\python.exe --version
2009.07.10 11:27:10 BST Job terminated with error number: 9. Duration: 0.328 seconds

The job definition is below.


BEGIN

dbms_scheduler.purge_log();
dbms_scheduler.drop_credential('singletono');

dbms_scheduler.create_credential
(
credential_name => 'singletono',
username => 'singletono',
password => '******'
);

dbms_scheduler.create_job(
job_name => 'TEST_JOB',
job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
job_action => 'c:\python26\python.exe --version',
auto_drop => TRUE
);

dbms_scheduler.set_attribute('TEST_JOB', 'credential_name', 'singletono');
dbms_scheduler.set_attribute('TEST_JOB', 'destination', '10.17.24.46:9999');
dbms_scheduler.enable('TEST_JOB');

END;