Re: svrmgrl question.

On Solaris, you need to get rid of stuff in /var/opt/oracle, as well as $ORACLE_BASE and $ORACLE_HOME, to completely remove things. Not sure if linux uses the same convention here...

-Peter

stevek wrote:
>
> Thank you both but I do not believe this is what I am looking for. I
> was aware of both your suggestions, but that is not it.
>
> Maybe a explanation of what happened. I was on one of my Linux systems
> loading Oracle on it for the first time in /u01. The load stop due to
> a linux program missing (readline). I aborted install, loaded the
> programs, deleted /u01 and /etc/oratab and /etc/oraInst.loc. I then
> went to install again. This time the install system had the old name
> of I used during the first install (dwdev). I thought I had completely
> deleted all traces of the old install and am trying to find out where
> oracle go this 'old' info.
>
>
>
> Hans de Ruiter wrote:
>
> > Svrmgrl gets it's info from the IFILE, which is at a fixed location
> > and contains the link to the real location of the PFILE. On NT (8i)
> > the IFILE can be found at
> > <Drive>:/%ORACLE_HOME%/database/init<sid>.ora. At startup, Oracle
> > will start the database defined in ORACLE_SID. (Should be declared
> > first before you do anything)
> >
> > Regards
> > Hans
> >
> > "stevek" <"stefano1(REMOVETHIS)"@att.net> wrote in message
> > news:3C967C0A.95B2BA25_at_att.net...Where does svrmgrl get
> > info it uses to start database without pfile directive?
> >
> > If is try to start database with svrmgrl (startup) it will
> > try to start a particular database. Where does it take
> > this info from?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 07:21:35 CST