Oracle DBA Checklists Pocket Reference By Quest Software The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the opinion of the reader. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification This page was updated July 18, 2007. UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: {16} Table 1; This table has SYSTEM tablespace on /oracle1 but for example p21 section "Recover from loss of executables and control file" para 1 based on SYSTEM TS on /oracle0. {34} Item #4; The end of the paragraph on disk space requirements (for Installing Oracle on Unix) indicates that "Defragmentation is required.." yet UNIX filesystems do not require defragmentation. This note was pasted from the section on Windows NT installation. {102} 1st paragraph; "00 6 * 2 * /usr/local/bin/scripts/cleanup.ksh > /usr/local/bin/scripts/cleanup.log . . . Here you see that cleanup.ksh is scheduled for execution on day 2 , hour 6, minute 00." With this syntax the previous job is actually scheduled for everyday at hour 6, minute 00 in the month of February only. The proper syntax should be 00 6 2 * *