crontab oracle problem in linux

Question

I created an app which is need to run in linux started by crontab. An error happened when it tried to connect oracle database: it returned SQLO_INVALID_DB_HANDLE. But if started it manually everything is okay.

I bet there are no path-related mistakes here, because everything goes well except the connection to the Oracle database. Oracle8 functions are used in my code.

thanks

Answer 1

Oracle uses a couple of environment variables, like ORACLE_HOME, TNS_HOME, ORACLE_SID. They might be missing from your crontab environment.