Calling a Java Program through CRONTAB

[Vishnu Vardhan A N V]

Hi,
I have a script which is excuted through a 'cron', in which I run a java program. But the program is not running in the cron. Is there any thing which we need to use to execute a JAVA program in a cron.
Regards
Vishnu

[Maulin Vasavada]

Hi Vishnu
Can you please provide your script or something to see how you are running the java program from the script?
Also, please explain- how do you know that your java program is not running?
Regards
Maulin

[Vishnu Vardhan A N V]

This is the script

cd /expbackup/ismspay/franchise/pihextraction
while :
do
java Payment
#Checking whether the file has any record at all
wc -l PIH_*.csv > a
i=`cut -c 1 a`
echo $i
if [ $i -ne 0 ]
then
cp PIH_*.csv /expbackup/ismspay/franchise/pihextraction/payready/.
cp PIH_*.log /expbackup/ismspay/franchise/pihextraction/paylog/.
rm -f PIH_*.csv
rm -f PIH_*.log
sh payftp.sh
mv /expbackup/ismspay/franchise/pihextraction/payready/PIH_*.csv /expbackup/ismspay/franchise/pihextraction/paydone/.
rm a
else
rm -f PIH_*.csv
rm -f PIH_*.log
rm a
fi
sleep 300
done

I find it not running because the action it is supposed to do is not being done. Is there any other way to monitor please let me know.
Regards
Vishnu

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Hi Vishnu
Rule 1 about crontab: your path is not the same as if you had signed in. So in all probability your script does not know where the java executable is.
You can set the path, either in the script, or in the crontab entry (depending on the OS). However if this script is being run by root or a priveledged user, then this may open a security risk.
The recommended way in Unix is to specify the full path to the executable. Try typing 'which java' at the command prompt, to see exactly where your java executable is. Then put that full path into your script.
Regards, Andrew

[Maulin Vasavada]

Yes. I agree with Andrew. Though I have never written a cron job myself
Try writing full path to java exe and see if it works.
Also, if I were you I would try writing a little separate program first instead testing on the real application.
Regards
Maulin

[Vishnu Vardhan A N V]

I have done what you had said and modified my script as follows.
#Executing the payment extraction program
export SHLIB_PATH=/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib
JAVA_HOME=/opt/java1.2
CLASSPATH="$JAVA_HOME"/lib/tools.jar:/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/jdbc/lib/classes12.zip
export JAVA_HOME CLASSPATH
export ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7
cd /expbackup/ismspay/franchise/pihextraction
echo $JAVA_HOME
echo $CLASSPATH
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java Vishnu
~
But even now when I run the script I am getting the following error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Vishnu
But when I run the same class file in the command prompt, I am able to execute the same.

[Chris De Vries]

Originally posted by Vishnu Vardhan A N V:
I have done what you had said and modified my script as follows.
#Executing the payment extraction program
JAVA_HOME=/opt/java1.2
CLASSPATH="$JAVA_HOME"/lib/tools.jar:/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/jdbc/lib/classes12.zip
export JAVA_HOME CLASSPATH

It looks like you have added tools.jar and oracle's classes to you CLASSPATH, but not the location of Vishnu.class. If you add that directory to your classpath it will probably work.