Re: Oracle OFA standards

From: Keith Boulton <boulke_at_globalnet.co.nospamuk>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:18:20 GMT
Message-ID: <35e5108d.91350284@news.globalnet.co.uk>

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:58:29 +0200, Siphiwe Memela <siphiwe_at_cm.co.za> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>
>According to Oracle's OFA standard the initSID.ora file is supposed to
>sit in the directory $ORACLE_BASE/admin/<sid>/pfile. I've created such a
>directory and stored the init file in it. However, when I started up
>oracle in order to create a database I got an error that the init file
>could not be found in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs. Oracle documentation says this
>is the default location for initSID but I want to make the database OFA
>compliant. How do I tell oracle where the init file is? I know you can
>say startup pfile=..... but I don't want do this everytime I start a
>database.
>

you need to create a symbolic link from /dbs/init<sid>. ora to admin/<sid>/pfile/init<sid>.ora Received on Fri Aug 28 1998 - 04:18:20 CDT