Re: Can't find spfile

So I'm not going mad after all...

As I said in another post it's a development machine. No idea why dbs would've been deleted. Will be emailing my colleagues in Chennai right now...

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:49:43 -0700, pfa wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to investigate problems on an oracle 9i server however I
> > cannot find an init.ora, pfile or spfile. What's strange is that show
> > parameter spfile says ?/dbs/spfile@.ora and yet there is no directory
> > dbs in $ORACLE_HOME (linux btw).
>
> You've got a problem. There should be $ORACLE_HOME/dbs. If you don't have
> it, you can always create it. If $ORACLE_HOME/dbs is missing, God knows
> what else might be missing as well.
>
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Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 20:24:05 CDT