i need to run jobs at predifned intervals of time and we have decided to automate this jobs i was wondering what to do use dbms_jobs package supplied by oracle or use cron and a shell script.

my task inculde

a)taking incremental exports
b)cleaning up archived log directory
c)other routine space administration tasks and paging them 2 a dba.

i am runing oracle 8.1.6 on redhat linux.source code or shell script examples to achieve the above tasks would be of great help.

thanks in advance

[Edited by hrishy on 02-22-2001 at 03:18 AM]