Re: cannot spool the mounted standby database through cron job shell script. Any other suggestions?

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

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