Re: Oracle Startup on Solaris 8 (newbie)

Check out your oratab file. You may need to follow the trail from /etc/rc2.d/[oracle_startup_file], which will probably point to dbstart, which will probably point to $ORACLE_BIN/dbstart which probably uses /var/opt/oracle/oratab ... or not. YMMV. jc

In article <8rol41$5hr$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   mobassharahmed_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have installed Oracle 8i (8.1.6.0.0) on Solaris 8 but am having
> difficuly starting oracle.
>
> I have oracle installed in /home/oracle
>
> ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/OraHome1
> ORACLE_SID=global
>
> however by database is in /db/oracle on a seperate RAID volume.
>
> All files have permission of oracle:dba (where dba is the group).
>
> When I start dbstart it tells me that Oracle has warm started. I can
> start the listener ok. However I cant find any reference to oracle
 when
> I do a ps -ef. Listener is there though. And TNSping works OK.
>
> However when I start sqlplus with system/manager I get
>
> ERROR:
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
>
> What am I missing? And where is the refernce to /db/oracle stored?
>
> Rgds
>
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