Re: listener woes

From: <tandym_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:51:33 GMT
Message-ID: <8tc8a1$pii$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

In article <8tad0b$afg$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   oratune_at_aol.com wrote:
> In article <39F86069.53B9D29F_at_home.nl>,
> frank <fbortel_at_home.nl> wrote:
> > Any of the instances using MTS?
> >
> > jawa wrote:
> >
> > > Oracle 7.3.4.4 on AIX -- Why doesn't the listener process startup
 on a
> > > system reboot using the following call from /etc/inittab to the
 following
> > > script dbora? The 'stop' stanza works fine. The 'start' stanza
 starts the
> > > databases but not the listener. It's as if some oracle process
 needs to be
> > > running before the call to lsnrctl happens. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > inittab entry:
> > > oracle:2:wait:/bin/su oracle -c "/.../.../dbora start"
> > >
> > > dbora script:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > if [ ! -f ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/dbstart -o ! -d ${ORACLE_HOME} ]
> > > then
> > > echo "Oracle startup: cannot start"
> > > exit
> > > fi
> > > #
> > > case "$1" in
> > > 'start') #Start the Oracle Databases
> > > ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/dbstart
> > > wait;sync;sync;sync;sleep 10
> > > ${ORA_HOME}/bin/lsnrctl start
> > > wait;sync;sync;sync;sleep 10
> > > ;;
> > > 'stop')
> > > ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/lsnrctl stop
> > > wait;sync;sync;sync;sleep 10
> > > ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/dbshut
> > > wait;sync;sync;sync;sleep 10
> > > ;;
> > > esac
> > > #
> >
> >

>
> I don't believe MTS to be the problem. The difficulty is using init
 to
> start ORACLE when the rc process, at system boot and system shutdown,
> should be used.

>

> --
> David Fitzjarrell
> Oracle Certified DBA

>

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not to nitpick or anything, but the oracle 8i (for AIX) installation guide (pg 4-5) instructs you to use the inittab to start oracle and the listener.
If using your method is the proper way to do it, why would oracle instruct you to do otherwise?

sonya

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