Hi everyone,
I wrote a shell script that runs a couple of SQL queries (Oracle 11g), which in turn create a couple of *.csv files for later processing.
The script runs flawlessly if I execute it from the command line by hand.
So I tried to run it using cron:
As you can see, I included the full path to the script, along with the 2 arguments that it requires (in this example, "P" and "me@mydomain.com".
I even added those 3 directories to cron's environment variable PATH, which is where all the executables called in my script are located, especifically:
And I keep getting this error:
I am not calling sqlplus in my script. Just plain sql exactly the way I do it from the command line.
FYI, in my script I source the *.sql files to the sql command like this (full path as well):
Needless to say, none of the sql queries get executed.
Unfortunately, I do not have the possibility to run these queries with an user with escalated privileges. But I don't think I'd need to anyway, considering that cron technically runs with the same privileges of the user who set up the crontab file, and as I said, I can run the script from the command line without any issues whatsoever.
Please feel free to correct me.
Any hints or ideas will be more than welcome. Thanks in advance!

looks like you have two problems

/sqlplus.log is on the root
and your script can't find sqlplus

in your script, use the full path to desired log location, and the sqlplus executable

I did, but still didn't work.
I eventually solved the issue by exporting all the environment variables that were available to my user session at the top of my script, so when the time came to actually execute the sql queries and stuff through cron, it worked like a charm (see complete solution here). So it was a environment issue.
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my post. I really appreciate it.