Re: default location of initSID.ora file

In article <sxdjd.282.001312AF_at_orca.alaska.edu>, <sxdjd_at_orca.alaska.edu> writes:
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> From: sxdjd_at_orca.alaska.edu (David J. DeWolfe)
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
> Subject: default location of initSID.ora file
> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 19:04:15
> Organization: University of Alaska
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> Hello all;
>
> Just wondering if it's possible to change the *default* location of the
> init.ora file. I know that you can specify an alternate location via the:
>
> startup pfile=/location/of/initSID.ora
>
> from the server manager command line, but we'd like to make the alternate
> location the default.
>
> specifics = Oracle 7.1.4 and 7.1.6, Digital Unix 3.0 and 3.2
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David J. DeWolfe
> Data Base Specialist
> Office of Information Services (formerly UACN)
> University of Alaska
> Fairbanks, Alaska 99775
> <sxdjd_at_orca.alaska.edu>
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We are on Sun Solaris and we did exactly by creating links. In solaris, initSID.ora is in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, so we moved dbs to another partition and created a link : $ORACLE_HOME/dbs -----> /new_partition/dbs Received on Wed Jun 14 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST