Re: svrmgrl question.

make sure the .bash_profile for ORACLE is not setting the SID - This could be where the SID information is coming from.

Tom

"Peter Sylvester" <peters_at_mitre.org> wrote in message news:3C988CDF.E6A9862C_at_mitre.org...
> 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 - 15:21:51 CST