Re: sgadef file in 8i, what happened to it?

the same is the case in all our servers. i think sgadef file is obsolete in oracle8i. however you can modify your script to grep for ora_sid of ps -ef output to check whether oracle is up and running. sreedhar

In article <8f1c3n$91b$1_at_gxsn.com>,
  "James Belton" <jbelton_at_freenetname.co.uk> wrote:
> The sgadef file should only exist while the database is up and
 running and
> should be in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory. It describes the SGA.
>
> If the file does not get erased by the OS when the DB shuts down, you
 may
> have problems starting it up again... are you doing shutdown abort a
 lot?
>
> http://www.jamesbelton.co.uk
>
>

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Sreedhar


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