Re: Need help starting Oracle 8 at bootup time

On 29 May 1999 05:27:13 GMT, Salsawak wrote:
>Hi!

First, try running them by hand as root, and see if you have any problems.

If you do su - oracle, are your ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID variables being set? Oracle won't start without them.

>We just installed Oracle 8i on a SUN 450 running Solaris 7. Our DBA wants
>Oracle 8 to be startup at boot time and shutdown when the system goes down. I
>created a script in init.d that look like as follows.
>
>Begining of script
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>case $1 in
> start)
> echo "Starting Oracle Database. . ."
> su - oracle "/opt/app/oracle/local/dbstart.sh"
> su - oracle "/opt/app/oracle/local/listener_start.sh"
> ;;
> stop)
> echo "Shutting Oracle Database . . ."
> su - oracle "/opt/app/oracle/local/dbshut.sh"
> su - oracle "/opt/app/oracle/local/listener_stop.sh"
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Error during Oracle startup"
>esac
>
>End of script
>
> I tried to execute the script from rc2.d with no success and if I try from
>rc3.d then the CDE won't work at the console. I also want to shutdown from
>rc0.d.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or if there is a better way to
>accomplish this task??????
>
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Ramon
>

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