Re: default location of initSID.ora file

From: Martin Rapier <m.rapier_at_sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: 1995/06/16
Message-ID: <3rrpmo$al2_at_hippo.shef.ac.uk>#1/1

usd2973_at_interramp.com wrote:
>
>In article <sxdjd.282.001312AF_at_orca.alaska.edu>, <sxdjd_at_orca.alaska.edu> >writes:
>> Path: >interramp.com!psinntp!psinntp!news.nyc.pipeline.com!newsjunkie.ans.net!howland.>reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.p=

su.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!biosci!news.al>aska.edu!sxdjd.uacn.alaska.edu!sxdjd>> 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/init=
SID.ora>> >> from the server manager command line, but we'd like to make the alternate >> location the default. >> >> specifics = Or=

acle 7.1.4 and 7.1.6, Digital Unix 3.0 and 3.2>> >> Thanks in advance>> >>
>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

We are on Sun as well, and all I did was leave the default initSID.ora in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, but with just a single 'ifile=<actual location>' entry in it. Seems to work fine. (Of course you need to copy your hacked initSID.ora to any new version $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directories you create :)

Cheers.
Martin. Received on Fri Jun 16 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST