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On 5/4/06, Fred Smith <fred_fred_1_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, that is the question I had. Is it possible to configure a server
> to allow users without root privileges to set a database to auto-start in
> unix?
AFAIK, doing an "auto-start" [and "auto-stop" for that matter] requires a call from a script in /etc/init.d, but if i recall correctly the script itself runs as the user that owns the oracle software and not as root.
-- -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA shrekdba_at_gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "All the girls say Save a horse, ride a cowboy." -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu May 04 2006 - 14:27:40 CDT
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