Re: Autostarting 9iAS

From: Ana C. Dent <anacedent_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:39:11 -0700
Message-ID: <PMf_a.56641$Ne.39655@fed1read03>

quarkman wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:02:03 GMT, John Russell
> <netnews6_at_johnrussell.mailshell.com> wrote:
>

>>
>>>> "quarkman" <quarkman_at_myrealbox.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:oprtscgsm1zkogxn_at_haydn...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could someone point me to the bit in the doco which tells you how 
>>>>> to auto-
>>>>> start the Enterprise Manager website and the HTTP server on Linux? 
>>>>> For the
>>>>> life of me, I can't find it... new pair of eyes required.
>>
>>
>> Is this what you mean?
>>
>> http://download- 
>> west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A97329_01/core.902/a92171/start.htm#1018128
>>
>> I searched in the docs for "start" which led to a bunch of
>> "Starting..." topics.  This one has a bunch of UNIX commands for
>> starting Enterprise Manager and HTTP server.
>>
>> John
>> -- 
>> Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/john_russell/

>
>
>
> It's a good link, that's for sure. But no, it's not what I was after
> (which I'm beginning to think was a figment of my imagination anyway).
> The command line stuff is easy(ish). It's wrapping it into a shell
> script that can execute at boot time that's a bit trickier, and for
> which I thought Oracle had provided a sample script. Right now, for
> example, I have root starting the Enterprise Manager web site courtesy
> of rc.local... except that's not right, and you can tell it's not right
> because a billion and one java exceptions get thrown when you try to use
> the EM web site to start the ohs. So throw in a su -oracle -c emctl
> start, and all will be well?? Uh huh... the boot sequence now pauses
> waiting for an interactive command.
>
> I thought I'd seen how to do it somewhere without all this kerfuffle.
>
> But thanks anyway
> Regards
> HJR
>

I've done it with a basic script.
The only "gotcha" is that sleeps are needed because some utilities return control to the script BEFORE they are really available to service requests.

The result is NO errors and yet non-functioning s/w. Received on Tue Aug 12 2003 - 19:39:11 CDT