Re: Start/Shutdown of Oracle Databases in Unix

trazz_at_interaccess.com wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any unix shell scripts to startup and shutdown
> multiple databases in unix. i have to do the following manually and it
> gets boring every time.
>
> 1. su - oracle
> 2. set environment variables (ORACLE_SID is the one that will need to
> change each time i need to startup a differnet database.
> 3. sqldba lmode=y
> inside the sqldba i then type
> 4. connect internal
> 5. startup or shutdown immediate
> 6 . exit
>
> I have to repeat that process each time for every database on the
> server. how can i make it automatically in a shell script do all of
> those things without the need for user intervention. i want to start
> and stop it from cron as well. I need it to be able to change to a
> different database name each time and be able to start or stop all or
> some of them.
>
> We are running on Sun OS 5.4/Solaris 2.4
>
> Oracle 7.1.4 & Oracle 7.3 &
>
> SQL*DBA: Release 7.2.2.3.0 - Production on Tue Aug 27 22:46:23 1996
>
> Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1994. All rights reserved.
>
> Oracle7 Server Release 7.2.2.3.0 - Production Release
> With the distributed and parallel query options
> PL/SQL Release 2.2.2.3.0 - Production
>
> SQLDBA>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trazz

Oracle provides unix scripts to start and shutdown oracle instances on a server. Look at "dbshut" and "dbstart" in $ORACLE_HOME/bin.

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