ld.so.1: sde2shp: fatal: libsde.so: open failed: No such file or directory

Question

I am running ArcSDE 9.3.1 on Solaris 10 against Oracle 10gR2.

I have a shell file which uses sde2shp fine - it creates the files as expected. When I try to schedule the shell file via crontab I get the error message:
ld.so.1: sde2shp: fatal: libsde.so: open failed: No such file or directory

I have checked that the SDE directories appear before the Oracle directories in the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and also that the file libsde.so exists in SDEHOME/lib.

Has anyone got any suggestions on how to resolve this please?

Thanks.

John

VinceAngelo · Accepted Answer

'cron' jobs generally run in a different shell (Bourne or Korn), so they won't run your .cshrc.
It's generally necessary to explicitly set every variable you might need at the top of the
script (in the appropriate syntax) --#!/bin/sh # myCronJob.sh  # .. set path variables # SDEHOME=/opt/esri/arc100ora10g64 ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/.... PATH=$SDEHOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SDEHOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib export SDEHOME ORACLE_HOME PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH  # .. set connection variables # SDEUSER=foo SDEPASSWORD=bar export SDEUSER SDEPASSWORD  ...

- V