Jobs in oracle

Hi,
I need to schedule a job which calls unix script from the server.
Can we use DBA scheduler, if yes, how should we go about it?
Could anybody please suggest anything on this?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Neha

Thanks all for responding so quickly.
Requirement is to run a unix script from oracle through a job.
I tried this:
BEGIN
dbms_scheduler.create_job
job_name => 'Run_Shell1',
schedule_name => 'DEMO_SCHEDULE',
job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
job_action => '/export/home/nehak/run_script.sh',
enabled => TRUE,
     comments => 'Run shell-script'
END;
It is giving error :
ORA-27481:'Run_Shell1' has invalid schedule
ORA-27476:'DEMO_SCHEDULE' does not exists
ORA-06512
Could anybody please tell what is going wrong here?
Thanks in Advance.

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