Re: startup and shutdown oracle in solaris 8

Juhan Kundla wrote:

> Sic! Use oratab for what?
>
> The /etc/init.d/oracle script (or one of its subscripts) uses oratab to
> check out the oracle SIDs. You still need the "oracle" script and
> symlinks in /etc/rc?.d directory so initd daemon could start up the
> Oracle instances.
>
> Juhan

There are a lot of good reasons for not putting the startup directly on oratab. The orginal respondant had it correct when he said that the /etc/rc?.d method should be used. The only thing that I disagree with him on is that there are lots of systems that do not come up to run level 3. I personally work with dozens of servers that only come up to run level 2, so my S98oracle is in /etc/rc2.d.

The other modification I would make to what he said is that you really need to be super conscious about what else is being run on the machine and the order that they must be started. I work with several systems where I must ensure that the listener and the database must start prior to starting other applications which use the database. At the same time, when the system is being rebooted I have to take the application down gracefully before I stop the database. Received on Thu Nov 30 2000 - 14:14:44 CST