RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k

From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) <Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:04:55 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0036E59B.20010816202033@fatcity.com>

Babette,

I'm not sure if I have read this anywhere but I think that the registry entry (as created by oradim) might be used when the service is started. However, when using startup the Oracle executable looks in
%oracle_home%\database for the file initMINE.ora.

What I do is create a file called in the database directory that has just 1 line - an ifile pointing to the pfile in the pfile directory.

This is what the Database create wizard does in terms of the inti file.

So for example I have something like:

C:\oracle\product\817\database>type initbdb2.ora
IFILE='c:\oracle\admin\BDB2\pfile\pfileBDB2.ora'
C:\oracle\product\817\database>dir c:\oracle\admin\bdb2\pfile

 Directory of c:\oracle\admin\bdb2\pfile

19/07/2001  13:49       <DIR>          .
19/07/2001  13:49       <DIR>          ..
20/07/2001  14:51                4,733 pfileBDB2.ora

Of course, just like Unix, when using the startup command you can specify the full path and name of the init file if you wish.

Regards,
Bruce

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2001 1:51

As everyone in this thread seems so knowledgeable about NT, I would like to digress and ask a related question.  

When I use oradim to create a service,
oradim -new -sid MINE -pfile c:\mine\initMINE.ora .....  

The service is created, the instance is started!! BUT, when I use svrmgrl to shutdown the instance and then try to start it up, it complains because the init file does not exist in %ORACLE_HOME%\pfile  

BUT the oradim DID create the entry:
ORA_MINE_PFILE = c:\mine\initMINE.ora  

So what is this registry entry used for? And why do I need to place the init.or under
%ORACLE_HOME%\pfile
 

Thanks
Babette

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