Re: OFA--move initSID.ora from $ORACLE_HOME/dbs breaks dbstart

On Sun, 02 Aug 1998 15:51:36 GMT, johnvue_at_gte.net wrote:

>If OFA compliant by moving initSID.ora out of $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/ then
>dbstart won't work:
>
> Can't find init file for Database "SID1".
> Database "SID1" NOT started.
>
>It looks as if OFA compliance will make dbstart useless to me. I
>guess I could put links to the real initSID.ora in the
>$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/ but is this an acceptable practice?
>
>Anyone know of an elegant workaround?

Putting a symbolic link in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs to the real file is the normal thing to do. The only alternative I can think of is to use a modified dbstart which uses

        startup pfile=$ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/init$ORACLE_SID.ora

Regards,

Eric Received on Sun Aug 02 1998 - 16:11:04 CDT