oraback problem

From: Tom Brown <tom_at_eazyriders.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 15:39:18 GMT
Message-ID: <GmFq8.2800$oW2.17499191@news-text.cableinet.net>

Hi,

I'm having a problem getting oraback.sh to run. When it is run it states that oracle is not available so it thinks the instance is not running but it is? Does anyone know why this might be? Below is the output of what occurs...

thanks

Tom

[oracle_at_dbrestore oracle]$ oraback/oraback.sh

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Oracle database backup started on dbrestore: 03:41:21 PM 04/03/2002

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Creating table of contents for this backup...

 Checking the status of Oracle instance DCST.. Apr 3 15:41:21 dbrestore oraback.sh DCST: WARNING: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
  Oracle instance DCST appears to be down... grep: /home/oracle/backup/DCST/logfile.list: No such file or directory basename: too few arguments
Try `basename --help' for more information.   Oracle instance DCST is supposed to backed up live...   Oracle instance DCST WILL NOT be backed up...  (It is down and there are no backup config files in  /home/oracle/backup/DCST from a previous run of oraback/oraback.sh)

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Oracle database backup ended on dbrestore: 03:41:21 PM 04/03/2002

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[oracle_at_dbrestore oracle]$
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 09:39:18 CST