Re: emctl appears to need $DISPLAY

From: Arthur Salazar <asalazar_at_asalazar.visionsolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:10:57 -0700
Message-Id: <pan.2005.07.28.16.10.55.228054@asalazar.visionsolutions.com>

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:24:55 +0200, Maxim Demenko wrote:

> Arthur Salazar schrieb:

>> I am attempting to write a script to bring Oracle 10g up and down. 
>> At one point I call "emctl start dbconsole".  I find that it appears
>> to need to have the DISPLAY environment variable set to a valid X 
>> server.
>> 
>> I will be running the script in a non-visual environment.  Can anyone
>> suggest a way that this can be worked around?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -arthur 

>
> I'm not sure, whether it applies to 10g ( don't have here a 10g
> installation ), but in 9i similar problem was easily workarounded by
> setting dummy DISPLAY ( Jserv checks whether the variable is set, but
> don't validate it). So you can simply try
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1
> (it doesn't matter that you have not x server local running).
>
> Best regards
>
> Maxim

Thanks. This applies only to 10g for me since we are using Apache in 9i. My notes say that I used the local server 10.1.255.7 as DISPLAY but it did not work. I will try the 127.0.0.1 -- localhost idea.

-arthur Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 11:10:57 CDT