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Re: Embarrasing question

From: Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:19:19 -0700
Message-ID: <3C177577.F4652529@indra.com>


Jan Eliasen wrote:
>
> Hi there.
>
> I installed oracle 9i under redhat 7.2 as eht user "eliasen". It ran just
> fine (I geuss). Now, I want to switch it to the user "oracle", so I
> changed the owner of all the files in $ORACLE_BASE and subdirs to the new
> user and booted the machine (I didnøt know what to run). But now, oracle
> isn't running.. apparently, the installer doesn't make sure it starts up
> when you boot? And I can not find any program to run to start it. During
> my search, I found a $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart script - but it seems that
> this script runs a sqldba script?!? And this script can not be found on my
> harddrive :-/ What to do?
>
> And... another embarrasing one; How to I create users? I'd rather have a
> graphical thingy or something so I don't have to use sqlplus and create
> user and all that. Can anyone help me here?
>
> Just for the records; I'm looking like a maniac through
> $ORACLE_BASE/doc/index.htm and the rest to find it, but I can't seem to
> find what I need.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Eliasen Jr.

You need to read the following docs:

  1. Concepts manual.
  2. Admin docs
  3. Unix/Linux install docs.
-- 
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 09:19:19 CST

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