Re: Newbie - Starting up Oracle in Linux

Bill,

Did you installed Oracle ? If so, you need to login on your UNIX box as the userid who installed the code and created the database. In a point of the installation you were prompted to run a shell script called root.sh as root. This script, among other things, creates a file called oratab, either under /etc or /var/opt/oracle. This script contains a record for each database on the system to point them to the right Oracle code tree and is used to set your environment, so next time you try to start up the database be sure you are login as the user who owns the database and code tree, ussually named oracle, type ". oraenv" (without the quotes), when asked enter the name (ORACLE_SID) of your database. Now you can inkove sqlplus and startup the database

sqlplus internal
startup

Hope this helps

Renzo

Bill Bell <billb_at_ti.com> wrote in message news:<3C2B2D83.4030406_at_ti.com>...
> Need help starting up server.
>
> I am using Oracle8i for Linux Starter Kit book. I am trying to get familiar
> with Oracle.
>
> After several attempt I just finished installing Oracle 8.1.7 on Mandrake 8.1.
> Sqlplus was running and I was able to do some queries. I shut down the
> computer and I started it up again and Oracle did not start up. The book says
> the way to start it up is to log in to sqlplus as
>
> sys/oracle as sysdba
>
> and issue the command
>
> STARTUP OPEN
>
> The syntax 'sys/oracle as sysdba' does not appear to be correct.
>
> What is the proper procedure to startup the server? Thanks...
Received on Fri Jan 18 2002 - 19:13:27 CST