Re: crontab shutdown and start

Normally they work allright for backup-procedures too: they will start or stop those instances registered as automatic=Y in /etc/oratab --
Kind Regards,

Gerard

Mattias Malmgren <a2matmal_at_ulmo.stud.slu.se> wrote in article <36012391.871B9C9A_at_ulmo.stud.slu.se>...
> I am a beginner and I use Oracle 8 and Sun Solaris 2.6.
> I need to create a script used by crontab
> to shut down and start up the database. During the downtime the
> content of the database is suposed to be backed up by the normal
> backup-program used for all computers in my department.
>
> In $ORACLE_HOME/bin/ there is two scripts called dbstart and
> dbshut. But in the comments of the script it is said:
> "should ONLY be executed as part of the system boot procedure".
>
> / Mattias
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 05:34:25 CDT