Oracle 8i dbstart script

Don't know if any of you have bumped into this or no, but FYI:

HP9000 L class running Oracle 8.1.6. Our SA uses the dbstart and dbshut scripts to start & stop the database for backups, system shutdown, etc... The original dbstart script supplied by Oracle did not start up the database. Reason, if you look into the script they set a variable called VERSION by invoking svrmgrl with the exit command "svrmgrl command=exit" and then parse the results through awk. In previous editions they got a line like "PL/SQL Release 8.x". Problem is that the svrmgrl that comes with 8.1.6 does not produce that line. Solution is to go into the script and change "PL\/SQL (Release" to "Oracle8i (Release". Then all works as it should.

Dick Goulet Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 13:50:23 CDT