Roy Coleman <rcoleman_at_erols.com> wrote in article
<01bc8384$c9e6d040$8049accf_at_chrisc>...
> I'm trying to shut down the database from within cron so I can perform a
> full backup with the database down. When I kick off the DBSHUT command
> from cron it errors out. I just upgraded to Sun Solaris 2.5.1 and Oracle
> 7.3.3 . Does anyone have any experience with this. This use to work
> before the upgrade.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Roy Coleman
> DBA
> USDA/APHIS/ITC
>
Oracle 7.3 broke dbstart and dbshut on many Unix platforms, as I understand
it. sqldba (which is called in the dbstart/shut scripts) became svrmgr,
but the shell scripts werent changed. Linking svrmgr as sqldba is the quick
fix.
--
Miles Thomas
Logica UK Ltd
thomasm "at" logica "dot" com
The above are personal opinions, and are
not necessarily the opinions of my employer.
Received on Sat Jul 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
