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Re: How to PERMANENTLY set semaphores in Linux - Suse Personal Edition 8.2?

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:40:23 +1100
Message-ID: <3fb5921f$0$14048$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>


No, you're going down a deep dark hole there. Clearly, SuSe doesn't use the same way of setting these things as Red Hat or Mandrake, so I can be of no further assistance (I wish I could download the ISO images from SuSe, Novell or whoever it is these days!)

Regards
HJR <linuxquestion_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:672ceaed.0311141017.594e61d6_at_posting.google.com...
> HI,
>
> Sorry, I should have mentioned that I did look for
> those files. But they don't exist on my edition
> of Linux. Suse Personal 8.2
>
> Note that I haven't installed any databases yet. I've
> managed to install Oracle, but not created any databases.
> First, I want the OS to behave properly, so that I
> can rely on it.
>
>
> file /etc/sysctl.conf
> /etc/sysctl.conf: can't stat `/etc/sysctl.conf' (No such file or
> directory).
>
> (I have since created this file, but I'm not sure if it's right.
> See my other post.)
>
>
> file /etc/sysconfig/oracle
> /etc/sysconfig/oracle: can't stat `/etc/sysconfig/oracle' (No such
> file or directory).
> linux:/etc/init.d #
>
>
> file /etc/rc.config
> /etc/rc.config: can't stat `/etc/rc.config' (No such file or
> directory).
>
>
> file /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh
> /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh: can't stat `/etc/profile.d/oracle.sh' (No
> such file or directory).
>
> file /etc/oratab
> /etc/oratab: ASCII English text
>
> cat /etc/oratab
> *:/oracle/ora92:N
>
>
> file /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> /proc/sys/fs/file-max: empty
>
> cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 78587
>
>
> ---------------
>
> Do you think that there are there some fundamental
> things that are missing on my system?
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
>
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
news:<3fb4acfe$0$13681$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > <linuxquestion_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:672ceaed.0311140053.9aa959e_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Thanks for your responses.
> > >
> > > I created a script. The script was made up of
> > > commands that worked perfectly at the dot prompt (bash).
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > >
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > # File to set shmmax during boot.
> > >
> > > echo "Setting size for /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax"
> > >
> > > echo ` expr 2048 \* 1024 \* 1024 ` > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> > >
> > > echo "Value for shmmax is now: `cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax` "
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------
> > >
> > > But when I run this file, it doesn't want to work:
> > >
> > > Setting size for /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> > > : No such file or directoryne 5: /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> > > Value for shmmax is now: 33554432
> > >
> > >
> > > This occured in both bash, and sh.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> >
> > Well, as I posted elsewhere, the better way is to edit /etc/sysctl.conf.
But
> > I used to find that
> >
> > cd /proc/sys/kernel
> > echo 9876 9876 9876 > shmmax (insert appropriate numbers)
> >
> > ...used to work fine.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 20:40:23 CST

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